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- No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis Mon, 24 Feb 20, 5:00amFrom Molecular Brain, Biomedical Central Molecular Brain volume 13, Article number: 24 (2020) Cite this article Abstract A reproducibility crisis is a situation where many scientific studies cannot be reproduced...
- Secret Science Under Attack — Part 3 Mon, 3 Feb 20, 5:00pmOpinion by Kip Hansen — 2 February 2020 The attacks continue in the Journals of Science against the EPA’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule — commonly referred to as...
- Secret Science Under Attack — Part 2 Fri, 24 Jan 20, 1:00amOpinion by Kip Hansen — 24 January 2020 In Part 1 of this two-part series, I detailed how there has been a growing furor over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (E.P.A.’s) proposed “Strengthening...
- Secret Science Under Attack — Part 1 Thu, 23 Jan 20, 1:00pmBy Kip Hansen — 22 January 2020 On the 11th of November 2019, the NY Times published an article by journalist Lisa Friedman in the Climate Section titled: ”E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health...
- The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot Tue, 21 Jan 20, 5:00amGuest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020 Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives, has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of studies published last Fall in the...
- The reproducibility crisis in science Fri, 10 May 19, 2:00amDorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. From Nature: More than four decades into my scientific career, I find myself an outlier...
- The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis Mon, 18 Feb 19, 10:00amFrom Ars Technica Theory protects from “personal intuitions and culturally biased folk theories.” Cathleen O’Grady – 2/16/2019, 11:00 AM A jumbled jigsaw puzzle, AKA the state of theory in the behavioral...
- Fernbach et al.: Advantages of Pre-Registration of Study Design Wed, 13 Feb 19, 7:00amGuest Essay by Kip Hansen We recently saw on this blog a guest essay from Joel O’Bryan regarding a paper from Fernbach et al. titled “Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know...
- HOW BAD IS THE GOVERNMENT’S SCIENCE? (It’s worse than we thought.) Tue, 17 Apr 18, 11:35pmFrom the National Association of Scholars via an article in the Wall Street Journal. Policy makers often cite research to justify their rules, but many of those studies wouldn’t replicate Half the results published...
- The Crisis of Integrity-deficient Science Mon, 10 Jul 17, 2:00amThis post comes to us via Paul Driessen of CFACT. He highlights a very serious problem. Readers may want to weigh in with their own examples, some thoughts on why this is happening, and what possibly can be done...
- New Study Claims To Expose The ‘Science Charade’ Behind Some EPA Regulations Wed, 5 Jul 17, 11:00amFrom the Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 07/04/2017 A new study highlights how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is able to game the rule-making system to cloak contentious policy decisions as based on science...
- Science Has a Reproducibility Crisis Mon, 6 Mar 17, 9:30pmEdward Ferrara writes: If your Facebook feed is anything like mine, you may have recently heard about how Bill Nye–the Science Guy himself–“slammed” Tucker Carlson on the latter’s evening show on Fox...
- The journal Nature is going to begin requiring reproducibility in submitted papers Sun, 26 Feb 17, 2:04amFrom the Journal of Irreproducible Science – over 2/3s of researchers say they are unable to replicate study results WUWT Reader “QQBoss” writes: The BBC reports (shockingly), that the journal Nature is going to begin...
- A Nature editorial on the state of ‘robusted’ science reproducibility Fri, 4 Sep 15, 6:03amExcerpts from Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility C. Glenn Begley, Alastair M. Buchan & Ulrich Dirnagl Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot...
- Shades of Lewandowsky and Cook: When psychological science isn’t so sciency Mon, 31 Aug 15, 4:59amSound familiar? A study revealing a stunning lack of reproducibility in psychological science triggers another instance of reluctance to share data with any but friends, and an “adjustment” of data to fit a...