News Summary

• I spend a lot of my time working on software.
• I have been asked why software is, people say, not science.
• I think software matters.
• In fact, I think open source software is science.
• Or, at least computational science.
• And this post tells you why.
• Why we as scientists must insist on the scientific method.
• Why that means working on open and reproducible software.
• If the software is wrong, the science is wrong.
• Why open source is important for science.