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Good Science Project
Mission and Strategy The Good Science Project mission is to improve the funding and practice of science. We promote public advocacy and communication to reshape how science is funded, evaluated, and shared, so that it rewards rigor, transparency, creativity, a
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Mission and Strategy
The Good Science Project mission is to improve the funding and practice of science. We promote public advocacy and communication to reshape how science is funded, evaluated, and shared, so that it rewards rigor, transparency, creativity, and public value.
For more on these ideas, read our Statement of Principles (with multiple signatories).
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Goals
Good Funding
How science is funded determines who participates, what gets explored, and how work is rewarded. Good funding supports exploration, diversity of thought, and long-term impact, not just safe bets or familiar names.
Good Publishing
Publishing is how science is shared, judged, accessed, and reused. A good system publishing system would be fast, transparent, interactive, low-cost, and built for continuous improvement.
Good Evaluation
What science rewards is what science becomes. We should realign scientific incentives to promote rigor, creativity, and intellectual honesty—not groupthink or trend-chasing.
Good Culture
Culture often beats strategy or top-down policy. Scientific progress depends on how scientists work, think, and interact, and we should strengthen the cultural norms that make science reliable, transparent, and open to correction.
Latest Articles
March 27, 2026
The Economy of Knowing: Why Metascience Needs Micro and Macro
by Aishwarya Khanduja (Analogue Group) and Stuart Buck (Good Science Project) For more than 80 years, economics has […]
December 14, 2025
Innovations in Scientific Institutions
At the Good Science Project, we have often written about the need for institutional diversity in science, as opposed […]
A Top Scientist’s Ideas as to NIH
Editor’s note: The author is a senior NIH-funded scholar at a leading U.S. research university who has […]
AI and Pediatric Cancer Research
The Trump Administration recently issued an executive order titled “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” […]
A Case Study in Scientific Coordination
This is a guest post by Hiya Jain, a recent Columbia University graduate with a keen interest […]
What if NIH Had Been 40% Smaller?
That’s the question posed (and answered) by an all-star team of academic metascience researchers: Pierre Azoulay, Matt Clancy, […]
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