What is Critical Metascience?
Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described 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, 2024). I’ve also criticised some science reforms, such as preregistration (e.g., Rubin, 2020, 2024; Rubin & Donkin, 2024) 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 access preprints and open data and materials in postpositivist science. For further information about my work in this area, please visit my Google Sites webpage.
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BlueSky: @markrubin.bsky.social
Mastodon: @MarkRubin@fediscience.org
Twitter: @RubinPsyc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrubin1/
Email: Mark-Rubin@outlook.com
PDFs of Blog Posts
A selection of articles from this blog have been published as PDF preprints here.
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