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Data Sharing: Good Research Practice? Or an Impediment to Science?

[Excerpts taken from the article “E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules” by Lisa Friedman, published in the New York Times] “The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government…

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Open Data. Open Policy.

[From the blog “A Great Day for Open Policy Analysis” by Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (BITSS Postdoc) posted at http://www.bitss.org%5D “Earlier this year, I headed over to the CBO [U.S. Congressional Budget Office] to share my efforts to “reverse engineer”…

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RANDALL & WELSER: On the Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science

[This post is based on the report,  “The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences and the Road to Reform”, recently published by the National Association of Scholars] For more than a decade, and especially since the publication of a…

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