Metascience 101 - EP1: "Introduction"

IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Dylan Matthews sits down with economist Heidi Williams and IFP co-founder Caleb Watney to set the scene. They talk about the current state of science in America, what metascience aims to achieve, and what empirical experimentation in metascience is revealing. 

“Metascience 101” is a nine-episode set of interviews that doubles as a crash course in the debates, issues, and ideas driving the modern metascience movement. We investigate why building a genuine “science of science” matters, and how research in metascience is translating into real-world policy changes. 

Chapters

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:36) Science is important

(00:06:59) Pharmaceuticals and patents

(00:10:31) From PhD to independent scientist

(00:14:05) The changing landscape of team science

(00:19:52) Immigration of scientists

(00:24:00) Solutions to improve science funding

(00:36:51) Doing metascience

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