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What Can Stop Bad Science? Open Science and Modified Funding Lotteries
[From the working paper, “Open science and modified funding lotteries can impede the natural selection of bad science” By Paul Smaldino, Matthew Turner, and Pablo Contreras Kallens, posted at OSF Preprints] “…we investigate the influence of three key factors on the…
Read MoreAndrew Gelman Asks, Does Criticizing Bad Research Do More Harm Than Good?
In a recent post at his blogsite, Statistical Modeling, Causal inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman asks whether his recent criticisms on statistical grounds of a prominent researcher’s experiments on healthy eating are doing more harm than good. The researcher, Brian Wansink, is John…
Read MoreNot to Sound Overly Dramatic, But Are Perverse Incentives Risking a “New Dark Age” in Science?
Recently, Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath published the results of a computer simulation where scientific research is governed by “laws” of natural selection based on publishing “success.” Their finding that perverse incentives can cause “bad science” to push out good science…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Guardian (September 21, 2016)
[From the article “Cut-throat academia leads to natural selection of bad science, claims study”, which reports on a scientific study by authors Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath ] “Sociology, economics, climate science and ecology are other areas likely to be vulnerable to the…
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