I do not myself have a much to say about the philosophy of science as such. I read a lot of Lakatos that one time.
Mostly I am interested in a kind of qualitative mechanism design musing as it pertains to designing better peer-review.
What is science?
Not really in that vein, check out amusing curmudgeon: DC Stove, Popper and after: Four modern irrationalists.
Question: does science advance one funeral at a time?.
Star Scientist Funeral
Case study: Airborne transmission
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill (Randall et al. 2021).
Memetics of Science
There are a lot of models of what scientific consensus might mean. (Kuhnian paradigms, degenerative research programs or whatever Lakatos called them, etc). I have now hived this off into community of science and science communication.
The problems of journals in particular
See publication bias.
Incoming
- Michael Burnam-Fink, What is Scientific about Data Science?
Sciencehacks
See soft methodology.
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