Stuart Buck is the Executive Director of the Good Science Project, and a Senior Advisor to the Social Science Research Council. As a Vice President at Arnold Ventures, Stuart funded renowned work on scientific reproducibility, including the Reproducibility Projects in Psychology and Cancer Biology. As a grantmaker, he helped launch the Center for Open Science, Vivli, the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, the Yale Collaboration on Research Integrity and Transparency, and the Evidence-Based Medicine DataLab at Oxford. He was instrumental in creating the TOP Guidelines, the world’s most widely-adopted standards for scientific publication. His grantmaking was featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among many others.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services should launch a Department-wide initiative to reduce wasteful spending on health services, drugs, and ineffective medical devices, saving many lives as well as billions of dollars annually.