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March 2025

Federal Indirect Costs--Does a Flat Rate Make Sense?
Whatever happens with the court case as to NIH’s initial attempt to limit all indirect costs to a flat rate of 15%, virtually no one thinks that…
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Recent News about Metascience
A few quick updates
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Book Review: Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research
Guest article by Dorothy Bishop
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What's Going On With Education Statistics?
A few weeks ago, the Good Science Project newsletter discussed many ill-advised cancellations of education contracts by DOGE, including everything from…
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Even More on NIH Indirect Costs
As an initial matter, my friend Santi Ruiz just published “50 Thoughts on DOGE.” Well worth reading for anyone, especially those of us who have long…
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Book Review: "An Introduction to Forensic Metascience"
Guest column by Harvey Motulsky
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Stuart Buck

February 2025

What if Congress Doesn't Specifically Reject NIH Indirect Cost Changes?
This post will be slightly wonky and in the weeds (unlike everything else we write at the Good Science Project!).
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Stuart Buck
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Achieving Government Efficiency Requires More, Not Less, Investment
Guest article by Anna Harvey, President of the Social Science Research Council
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Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education
Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department…
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