QRPs in Science and in Court
Schachtman Law,
Lay juries usually function well in assessing the relevance of an expert witness’s credentials, experience, command of the facts…
Lay juries usually function well in assessing the relevance of an expert witness’s credentials, experience, command of the facts…
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For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones. The post…
Over the past 20 years or so, there has been growing concern that many research results published in scientific journals can’t…
Morty reviews a review, on an important topic and written by Belgian scholars. Turns out, it is mostly referencing fraudulent…
Is science in the throes of a “reproducibility crisis”? If someone followed the same methods, techniques, and reagents as your…
I read a lot, but I am not very organized. Over the years, I have read thousands of papers about evidence based medicine and…
The reliability of early-stage cancer biology research is called into question by an investigation that concludes more than…
Kaj je cilj znanstvenih raziskav? Za koga oz. kaj raziskujemo? To ne bo ena klasičnih polemik glede pomanjkljivosti…
Elisabeth Bik calls out bad science for a living. A feud with one of the world’s loudest hydroxychloroquine crusaders shows…
ICU doctors say a safe, generic drug can prevent COVID-19. Why aren’t we using it? This coming Saturday, July 24th, is Wor…
ICU doctors say a safe, generic drug can prevent COVID-19. Why aren’t we using to it? This coming Saturday, July 24th, is…
Stanford’s Center for Open and Reproducible Science aims to make science – and research in general – more effective and…
If you were born before 1985, you might remember going to the store and buying CDs when you wanted to hear a piece of music. It…
Science represents perhaps the single greatest accomplishment of humankind. Of all human institutions, organisations and…
Several studies led by Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., are cited in a story examining the “hype vs. reality” in the cancer industry.
Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
This post was contributed by David Mellor from the Center for Open Science. In the last decade, researchers have brought…
On 12 September we will be announcing the winners of this year's ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. In this series of…
Our aggressive, expensive approach to cancer is doing more harm than good. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I posted a poll on…
I stood in the Assiniboine Conservatory parking lot holding my newly minted B.Sc. degree in physics. I had a student summer job…
[This is a copy of my blogpost, previously on thespectroscope.com.]Three days ago, I asked whether irreproducible research is a p…
[From the article “It’s not a replication crisis. It’s an innovation opportunity” by Jon Brock, published in Medium] “It takes…
Replication is not only possible and desirable in the sciences, but also in the humanities. At least, so we have argued in a rece…
Some scholars have claimed that replication – the independent repetition of an earlier study, answering the same study question…
The notion that intellectual freedom and fulfilling careers can't be found elsewhere is simply…
“Analysis and Correction of Inappropriate Image Duplication: The Molecular and Cellular Biology Experience” by Arturo Casadevall…
Research reproducibility is the foundation of scientific research. Transparency in research design and methodology, as well as…
Unfortunately, a lot of academic research in last few years is not reproducible. According to a recent report, only 6 out of 53…
Last Wednesday we worked with the Harvard GSAS Science Policy Group to organize a Minisymposium on Reproducibility. The…
Scenario 1: Jake needs a flask of MCF-7 cells for an assay, so he sends an email to the graduate student listserv asking for…
Richard Wiggins is an academic who has long been involved in the Chartered Financial Analyst program and appears in various…
Medical research has been plagued by less-than-rigorous practices and a culture that rewards quantity over quality. In a new…
Guest post by Quan-Hoang Vuong of Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Western University Hanoi…
Your daily selection of the latest science news! According to…
In a recent speech, former astronaut Julie Payette, now the Governor General of Canada, displayed her unquestioning belief that…
Science’s credibility crisis is making headlines once more thanks to a paper from John P. A. Ioannidis and co-authors. Ioannidis…
Science Buffs is covering an upcoming Keystone Symposia live streaming event called “Rigor in Science: The Challenge of…
The leading principle of open science is that anyone, whether they are part of the research community or the public, should be…
Joanna Diong writes for us this month. Jo is a faculty member at Sydney University where she investigates muscle activity (EMG…
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces that Abcam plc…
By: Elizabeth Gilbert, The Medical University of South Carolina and Katie Corker, Grand Valley State University What is “open…
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company) A few years back, scientists at…
What happens when an experiment is correct, but it's really hard to replicate? Are there research results that are accurate but…
Cet article fait suite à la publication, il y a quelques mois, dans Nature Human Behaviour d’un article intitulé « A Manifesto…
The duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of…
Reproducibility is everywhere recently, from the pages of scientific journals to the halls of the National Academy of Sciences…
Over the past few years, scientists have grown increasingly concerned about the lack of research reproducibility in the…
The ‘Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology’ initiative that has the purpose of assessing the reproducibility of preclinical…
Many scientific studies cannot be replicated and this is symptomatic of a wider crisis in basic research, say scientists.
About a week ago, I happened upon a number of stories about a study and project that demonstrates a key difference between…
Ed Yong in The Atlantic: In recent years, scientists have been dealing with concerns about a reproducibility crisis—the…
Last week, a review of the reproducibility of several highly cited cancer biology papers was published. The results were mixed…
Nearly five years ago, researchers suggested that the vast majority of preclinical cancer research wouldn’t hold up to follow-up…
Article by Sheeba Samuel, Frank Taubert and Daniel Walther, Institute for Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena…
Part of expertise comes from doing something for so long, so many times, that you see patterns that might not be immediately…
Most scientific work isn’t reproducible. Andy Tay explains why that’s a problem. The call for reproducibility has never been…
Quite a few of my recent posts have been about how the mainstream media is catching on to the corruption of science caused by…
Submitted by e-Science Portal Editor Leah Honor, Education and Clinical Services Librarian, Lamar Soutter Library, University…
A digital representation of how we work in the lab is required for reproducible and scalable work. If we can finally build on…
Most scientists I know get a chuckle out of the Journal of Irreproducible Results (JIR), a humor journal that often parodies…
The replication crisis extends well beyond the social sciences. Who will save the biomedical scientists?Continue reading on…
It seems that everywhere you look science is collapsing. I hope my tongue was visibly in cheek as you read first sentence.
Will the ProfG's be quaking in their boots as the Charcot 1 Project flopped and Merck (American version) sunk money into their…
Image manipulations are unfortunately a rather widespread practice in biomedical literature, where a large part of research…
Recently projects have been developed with the aim to reproduce published research results in psychology, biology and economics…
Recently projects have been developed with the aim to reproduce published research results in psychology, biology and economics…
(Note: We have been having some website issues over the weekend, which is why there has not been a post in a couple of days.
A report by Begley and Ellis, published in 2012, was hugely influential in fueling current interest and dismay about the lack…
By Melissa Cheung The open access (OA) movement has gained a lot of momentum, especially with the implementation of OA…
(Photo: rdecom/Flickr)In recent years, we've been hearing that science—especially biomedical and social science—is plagued by…
A few days ago there was a minor Twitterstorm over a particular paper that claimed to have found an imaging biomarker that was…
Replication is the bedrock of science. But what happens when a scientist can’t – or won’t – share the experimental materials…
Replication is the bedrock of science. But what happens when a scientist can’t – or won’t – share the experimental materials…
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Why are so many studies not reproducible? The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, an open-source replication project, aims…
The ability to repeat a study and find the same results twice is a prerequisite for building scientific knowledge. It may…
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It's with thanks to noted chemist-blogger Derek Lowe that I discovered a recent paper that (once again) has me questioning one…
The ability to repeat a study and find the same results twice is a prerequisite for building scientific knowledge. Replication…
Wilhelm Wundt (seated) with colleagues in his psychological laboratory, the first of its kind. (Photo: “Wundt-research-group…
One of the great things about scientific knowledge is that it is subject to confirmation or refutation by subsequent research.
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today – the ones upon which news coverage of…
With an increasing number of studies revealing much of science is not able to be reproduced or replicated, the question is now…
There has been much talk about both “academic freedom” as well as the responsibilities of scholars over the past few weeks.
The boundaries between scholarly speech and wider public speech are blurry, as separate discussions about Tim Hunt and…
You could be forgiven for thinking there's a bit of a crisis going on in biomedical science these days. Tenured academic…
There has been much talk about both “academic freedom” as well as the responsibilities of scholars over the past few weeks.
While we’ve written about using GitHub for publishing before, in this post I will explore publishing data on GitHub, as opposed…
De cuando en cuando vuelve a la actualidad la idea de que más de la mitad de los artículos científicos publicados podrían ser…
in 2013 I mentioned the efforts by the Reproducibility Initiative to redo studies in the field of experimental psychology. That's…
David Vaux. Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical…
. Given recent evidence of the irreproducibility of a surprising number of published scientific findings, the White House’s…
Moving from publications to platforms for discovery.
The year 2014 was one of extremes for Haruko Obokata. A year of high highs and even lower lows. Barely 30 years old, she was…
The spectacular fall of the Japanese scientist who claimed to have triggered stem cell abilities in regular body cells is not…
The spectacular fall of the Japanese scientist who claimed to have triggered stem cell abilities in regular body cells is not…
Retraction Watch readers, please join us in welcoming Alison McCook to the fold. We’re thrilled that McCook, an award-winning…