What Jason Crawford thinks about metascience
Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute, who left a software career to write full time about the history and philosophy of technological progress — how it happened, why it took so long, and whether it has slowed.
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2 dated positions, 2020 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Jason Crawford has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEven in that case, though, what we should trust is not the particular output of the scientific process at any given time. It can make wrong turns. Instead, we should trust that it will find the truth eventually, and that it is our best and only method for doing so.
↗What does it mean to “trust science”?rootsofprogress.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn any case, I think we need to not only look at the incentives facing scientists, but also those facing department heads, journals, and grant-making agencies.
↗Stagnation, scientific incentives, and funding modelsrootsofprogress.org