I've started a crowdfunding campaign that aims to tackle the replication crisis: Check out https://www.lets-fund.org https://www.lets-fund.org We're raising

I've started a crowdfunding campaign that aims to tackle the replication crisis: Check out https://www.lets-fund.org https://www.lets-fund.org We're raising funds for Professor Chris Chambers at Cardiff University. Chambers is a leading proponent of a new and better way of doing and publishing research, called ‘Registered Reports’, where scientific papers are peer-reviewed before the results are known. This might: -make science more theory-driven, open and transparent -find methodological weaknesses prior to publication -get more papers published that fail to confirm the original hypothesis -increase the credibility of non-randomized natural experiments using observational data The funds will free up his time to focus on accelerating the widespread adoption of Registered Reports by leading scientific journals. This ‘meta-research’ project might be exceptionally high-impact because we can cause a paradigm shift in scientific culture, where Registered Reports become the gold standard for hypothesis-driven science.