Real problem, wrong solution: why the Nationals shouldn't politicise the science replication crisis
- Written by Martin Bush, Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
The National Party, Queensland farming lobby group AgForce, and MP Bob Katter have banded together to propose an “independent science quality assurance agency”.
To justify their position, Liberal-National MP George Christensen and AgForce’s Michael Guerin specifically invoked the “replication crisis” in science, in...