We are in a period of science policy innovation, yet there are major evidence gaps in evaluating their effectiveness

Considering a series of proposed policy changes by the National Institutes of Health, Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen, argue they highlight wider systematic gaps in the evaluation of operational science policies and signal an urgent need to increase funding for metascience. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest public science funder in the world, has … Continued