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John Oliver and Last Week Tonight on Replications and Scientific Reliability
How does one know when replication has hit the big time? When JOHN OLIVER and LAST WEEK TONIGHT do an entire episode on it. For readers of TRN, much of what he talks about will be familiar. Just a lot funnier. Check…
Read MoreA Replication Crisis in Cancer Research?
[From the article “Cancer Research is Broken” in Slate] “The deeper problem is that much of cancer research in the lab—maybe even most of it—simply can’t be trusted. The data are corrupt. The findings are unstable. The science doesn’t work. In…
Read MorePublication Bias in Action: The Case of Oxytocin and Trust
[From the article, “How scientists fell in and out of love with the hormone oxytocin” in Vox:Science & Health] This article recounts how initial laboratory research showing the hormone oxytocin induced trust between people eventually was demonstrated to be mostly Type I error….
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Slate (April 15, 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “The Reproducibility Crisis Is Good for Science”) The author, an editor at Nature, reports on ways the reproducibility crisis is promoting change in science. An excerpt: “For what it’s worth, articles about confirmation bias and the misuse of p-values…
Read MoreAnother Approach to Reproducibility: “Invited Reproducibility Papers”
[From the article, “New article type verifies experimental reproducibility” at Elsevier Connect] ” Information Systems, a data science journal published by Elsevier, has devised a solution to the question of reproducibility by establishing a new article type: the Invited Reproducibility Paper. Authors of…
Read MoreCan You Teach Research Integrity? Sure, But That Doesn’t Mean They’ll Learn
[From the article in Retraction Watch] “Can we teach good behavior in the lab? That’s the premise behind a number of interventions aimed at improving research integrity, invested in by universities across the world and even private companies. Trouble is, a new…
Read MoreThe National Academy of Sciences Weighs in On Reproducibility
In late February, the National Academy of Sciences published a report summarizing a workshop held the previous year. The report can be freely downloaded here. The workshop convened researchers across a wide variety of disciplines and addressed numerous facets regarding…
Read MoreDeadline Extended for BITSS Transparency and Reproducibility Workshop
The Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) is extending the application deadline for its Transparency and Reproducibility workshop to April 8th. The workshop runs from June 8-10th and is taught by an impressive set scholars: Edward Miguel (Introduction); Tom…
Read MoreSo Is There a Replicability Crisis? Or What?
[From the blog Core Economics] Experimental economist ANDREAS ORTMANN reflects on the recent replicability studies in psychology and economics and tackles the question of what it all means. The article is entitled, “So, is there a crisis? Or is there…
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