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REED: More on Self-Correcting Science and Replications: A Critical Review
NOTE: This is a another long blog. Sorry about that! TL;DR: I provide a common framework for evaluating 5 recent papers and critically compare them. All of the papers have shortcomings. I argue that the view that the psychology papers represent…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH: 2 Recent Papers on the Role of the Media in Reproducibility
Two recent papers look at the influence of media on replications and retractions. A paper by Eleonora Alabrese concludes that “media coverage shapes the auto-correcting process of science by reducing the amount of misinformation and increasing punishment for retracted authors.”…
Read MoreREED: Is Science Self-Correcting? Evidence from 5 Recent Papers on the Effect of Replications on Citations
NOTE: This is a long blog. TL;DR: I discuss 5 papers and the identification strategies each use in their effort to identify a causal effect of replications on citations. One of the defining features of science is its ability to…
Read MoreRaise Your Hand If You’ve Messed Up
[Excerpts taken from the article “When We’re Wrong, It’s Our Responsibility as Scientists to Say So” by Ariella Kristal et al., published in Scientific American.] “What simple, costless interventions can we use to try to reduce tax fraud? As behavioral…
Read MoreA Scientific Fraud of Epic Proportions
[Excerpts taken from the article “A miracle cancer prevention and treatment? Not necessarily as the analysis of 26 articles by legendary Hans Eysenck shows” by Tomasz Witkowski and Maciej Zatonski, published in Science Based Medicine] “In May 2019 a report from an…
Read MoreOpen Science Practices in the Social Sciences: A Progress Report
[Excerpts taken from the article “Open Science Practices are on the Rise: The State of Social Science (3S) Survey” by Christensen et al., posted at MetaArXiv Preprints] “…how many social scientists are adopting open science practices, and what are the…
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