What is Critical Metascience and Why is it Important?

If science is the subject of metascience, then metascience is the subject of critical metascience!

Aug 12 • 

Mark Rubin

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April 2025

A Brief Review of Research that Questions the Impact of Questionable Research Practices

Abstract

Apr 16 • 

Mark Rubin

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March 2025

Let’s Talk about Science Reform! Introducing a Workshop on Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Investigating the Open Science…

By Sheena F. Bartscherer and Sven Ulpts

Mar 21 • 

Sheena Bartscherer

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Sven Ulpts

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September 2024

Preregistration, Severity, and Deviations

Preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity in Popper’s philosophy of science or when deviations are allowed

Sep 7, 2024 • 

Mark Rubin

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April 2024

Forcing a Deterministic View on Probabilistic Phenomena: Implications for the Replication Crisis

By Carol Ting

Apr 20, 2024 • 

Mark Rubin

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March 2024

The Pitfalls of Preregistration

Notes on Presentations by Chris Donkin and Stephan Lewandowsky

Mar 25, 2024

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Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement

Few Notes on the Centre for Open Science’s Recent Symposium

Mar 15, 2024 • 

Mark Rubin

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January 2024

Inconsistent Multiple Testing Corrections

The Fallacy of Using Family-Based Error Rates to Make Inferences About Individual Hypotheses

Jan 23, 2024 • 

Mark Rubin

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Type I Error Rates are Not Usually Inflated

The inflation of Type I error rates is thought to be one of the causes of the replication crisis. Questionable research practices such as p-hacking are…

Jan 11, 2024 • 

Mark Rubin

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December 2023

Prediction vs Accommodation: Which is Better and When?

In a recent article published in Synthese, philosopher of science Pekka Syrjänen asks “does a theory become better confirmed if it fits data that was…

Dec 4, 2023 • 

Mark Rubin

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September 2023

The Replication Crisis is Less of a “Crisis” in the Lakatosian Approach than it is in the Popperian and Naïve Methodological…

I contrast Popper's (1983, 2002) theory testing approach with that of Lakatos (1978) and a related approach called naïve methodological…

Sep 9, 2023 • 

Mark Rubin

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August 2023

Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity

A long-read guest essay by Tom Hostler on how the scientific reform movement aligns with John Ziman's concept of "post academic research".

Aug 8, 2023 • 

Tom Hostler

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