What is Critical Metascience?

Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question the ways in which metascience addresses issues such as open science, science reform, and the replication crisis (e.g., critical views on preregistration, questionable research practices, and the importance of replication in science). Some people have described it as meta-meta-science! :-)

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Who Runs the Blog?

I’m Mark Rubin, a professor of psychology at Durham University, UK. In the area of metascience, I’ve argued that it's not always problematic to engage in questionable research practices such as hypothesising after the results are known (HARKing; Rubin, 2017, 2022) and uncorrected multiple testing (Rubin, 2017, 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023). I’ve also criticised some science reforms, such as preregistration (e.g., Rubin, 2020; Rubin & Donkin, 2022) and stricter adherence to Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing (Rubin, 2020, 2021), and I’ve written about what I call questionable metascience practices (Rubin, 2023). Nonetheless, I am generally in favour of some other open science reforms, such as open data and materials. For further information about my work in this area, please visit my Google Sites webpage.

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Critical perspectives in metascience and the philosophy of science relating to open science, science reform, and the replication crisis.

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Professor of psychology at Durham University. I've published work in the areas of social psychology, philosophy of science, and metascience.