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The systematic study of scientific orthodoxy using the frameworks and tools of metascience—the science of science. The metascience of scientific orthodoxy examines orthodoxy as a phenomenon that cuts across disciplines, asking meta-level questions about how orthodoxy functions in different fields, how it relates to scientific progress, and how it can be improved. It draws on multiple meta-perspectives: the sociology of orthodoxy (how social structures shape consensus), the epistemology of orthodoxy (how consensus relates to truth), the history of orthodoxy (how it changes over time), and the psychology of orthodoxy (how individual scientists relate to group consensus). The metascience of scientific orthodoxy seeks not just to understand orthodoxy but to improve it—to design better institutions for forming consensus, to reduce pathological persistence of false orthodoxies, to accelerate the adoption of true ones. It's science trying to do science better by understanding one of its core dynamics.
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