Lets-fund.org Website Review

> let’s fund helps you discover, learn about and fund breakthrough > research, policy and advocacy projects. > our in-depth an*lysis uses the principles of effective altruism to > help you make an informed donation to high-risk, high-reward vaccines, modern agriculture, computers, evidence-based policies – scientific research produces enormous benefits to society.  but from climate science to cancer biology, science is facing a replication crisis. lots of research findings can’t be repeated and billions of valuable research funding dollars might be wasted in the process. here’s a short 4-minute explainer video about the replication crisis from ted.ed (you can skip to more in-depth an*lysis below):. there might be a new and better way of doing and publishing research, called ‘registered reports’, where research is peer-reviewed. currently, science is only peer-reviewed after the results are known. in contrast, in the registered reports format the peer reviewers. a simplified model of the new registered reports publication format. this format is applicable to a lot of areas in science and might help our first crowdfunding campaign, let’s fund #1, is raising funds for professor chris chambers, the leading proponent of registered reports. this will free up his time to focus on accelerating the widespread adoption of registered reports by leading scientific. 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.. > should fund prof. chambers. he has been the single most important > driving force in implementing the format of registered reports at. > an increasing range of psychology journals. he is clearly someone > who can make change happen; his impact over the past few years has. > adoption of registered reports across the empirical sciences is > surely one of the most efficient ways to improve the reliability of.