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Stuart Buck
Personal blog · goodscience.substack.comscienceeconomics
Stuart Buck writes The Good Science Project, a personal blog at goodscience.substack.com about science and economics. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stuart Buck's Substack on science funding and research policy, including NIH indirect cost rates and cuts to education research. It is valued for context on why indirect rates exist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Improving the funding and practice of science.
Most-linked posts?
- Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Oh, they already killed some of the best education research already: https://goodscience.substack.com/p/inexplicable-cuts-at-the-...
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on “Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website”Submitted The Research on Fluoride and IQ as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-costs-at-nih This reads that argument in the exact opposite direction: > So, an HHS division like NIH can use a different rate only for a “class” of grants or a “single” grant, and only with “documented justification.” > There is nothing that says NIH could, in one fell swoop, overturn literally every negotiated rate agreement for 100% of all grants with all medical and ac…
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on “Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts”Submitted Why Are We Screwing over Researchers Who Make Innovative Discoveries? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis blog post gives some good context on why indirect rates exist and some more reasonable ideas for reforming the current system: https://goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-costs-at-nih?utm...
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on “Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts”Submitted Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Addressing Research Fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tentative Venture into Replication at NIH as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strip Clubs vs. Academic Fraud: Which Is Worse? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Fund More Innovative Research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do We Fund New Research or Not? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We've Made Some Metascience Progress Since 1910, but Not Enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The NIH Should Expand Its “Person Not Project” Funding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with a Top Swiss Scientist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress Engineering: Innovation as Social Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Venture Capital Has Lessons for Government and Philanthropy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large-Scale Research for Repurposing and Supplements as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Top Scientist's Ideas as to NIH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Congress Doesn't Specifically Reject NIH Indirect Cost Changes? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metascience Reforms at NIH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upcoming Chances to Influence NIH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Paperwork Reduction Act Is Terrible as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Journals That Ban Replications–Are They Serious Scholarly Outlets at All? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The NIH Should Launch a Clinical Trial Committee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Under the Evidence Act, the NIH Could Do Much More as a story · 1 points
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