I think we need a lot more focus and funding on a field of study/discipline that studies how science it done. I'm not honestly sure who in the academy, if anyone, is doing this. "History of science" comes close (it's not always "in the past"), but generally scrupulously avoids making any determinations of the "validity" of the science, it tends to be like a _social_ study of how science it done, intentionally having no opinions on how to make it "better" or "worse".

Are there any departments or disciplines or academic careers that can be made on scrupulous scientific study of how science goes right and wrong, including statistical as well as other issues? I think we need it.