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A Census for Science
The potential of metascience rests on its promise to offer an unparalleled account of the determinants of scientific and technological progress. Whereas…
Nov 9
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Tim Hwang
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Caleb Watney
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A Census for Science
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September 2023
Will Funders Have The Patience to Reform Science?
Discussions about metascience are frequently not about science, but about money. From reforming grantmaking regimes to new frameworks for evaluating the…
Sep 13
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Tim Hwang
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Will Funders Have The Patience to Reform Science?
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Funding Against the Tide
The last edition of Macroscience focused on the curious fact that many scientists and industry insiders considered mRNA vaccines, ex ante, to be a dead…
Sep 6
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Tim Hwang
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Funding Against the Tide
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August 2023
The Frontier of Scientific Plausibility
As part of my fellowship at IFP, I’ve been embarking on a longer-term research project that seeks to produce a retrospective of the development and…
Aug 25
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Tim Hwang
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The Frontier of Scientific Plausibility
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It’s So Over. Now What?
What is the metascience community to make of the delirious rise and apparent fall of LK-99? If LK-99 turns out in the end – as it appears as of the time…
Aug 9
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Tim Hwang
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It’s So Over. Now What?
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Does a Better Science Need the State?
At Macroscience, I’ve argued frequently for a vision of improving science that imagines a revitalized role for government. I believe we need courageous…
Aug 4
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Tim Hwang
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Does a Better Science Need the State?
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July 2023
The Political Fragility of Metascience
To the extent that the burgeoning field of metascience has a policy agenda, it is that science should be governed by rigorous science. We should test…
Jul 20
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Tim Hwang
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June 2023
Antitrust in the Marketplace of Ideas
Science is a dynamic system. Ideas come and go. Scientific and technological institutions rise and fall. Fields of research collaborate, compete, and…
Jun 28
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Tim Hwang
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Antitrust in the Marketplace of Ideas
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Long Science
If you’re not already familiar (and, frankly, are the kind of person who is weird enough to be subscribed to Macroscience), I highly recommend that you…
Jun 22
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Tim Hwang
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The Seductions of Big Science
There’s a reason why Oppenheimer will focus on the Manhattan Project, and not the bopping quantum physics scene in Göttingen that gave a young Robert…
Jun 15
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Tim Hwang
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Jun 5
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Tim Hwang
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