Good Science Project – 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, 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

August 31, 2025

A New Institute for Neglected Research

The policy discourse about high-risk, high-reward research has been too narrow. When that term is used, people […]

How We Could Save Billions by Finding Which Medical Treatments Don’t Work

From the original published here. A Health and Human Services Initiative to Cut Wasteful Spending and Improve Patient […]

New R&D Policy Briefs!

Over the past several months, the Good Science Project has been commissioning a series of policy briefs […]

Metascience at NIH

The Senate Appropriations Committee just had its full markup of the appropriations bill as to NIH for the next […]

The Tower of Science

This is a guest post by Hiya Jain, a recent Columbia University graduate with a keen interest […]

The Case for a “Department of Government Efficiency”

There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government […]

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About

Advisors

Philip Bourne

Dean, School of Data Science, University of Virginia; Former Assistant Director of Data Science, NIH

Daniel Correa

President, Federation of American Scientists

Tyler Cowen

Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Maryrose Franko

Former Executive Director, Health Research Alliance

Kumar Garg

President, Renaissance Philanthropy

Gregg Gonsalves

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale

John List

Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Chief Economist, Walmart

Olivia Rissland

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Colorado

Joseph Ross

Professor of Medicine and of Public Health, Yale

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