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A Nice “Shoutout” to TRN in Nature Sustainability
[Excerpts taken from the article “Economists run experiments, too” by Aiora Zabala, published at Nature Sustainability] “For most who don’t know this literature, it’s easy to lightly recommend that we should implement taxes, subsidies or regulations to tackle environmental challenges…Economists…
Read MoreHow Could This Happen?
[From the article “A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers” by Ed Yong, published in The Atlantic] “In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk of depression. It was a blockbuster discovery at…
Read MoreIt’s Not A Problem, It’s an Opportunity
[From the blog “The replication crisis is good for science” by Eric Loken, published at The Conversation] “Science is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to replicate when the procedures are repeated.” “Is…
Read MoreScience Can Get Us Out of the Reproducibility Crisis (But How?)
[From the blog post, “Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis?” by Hilda Bastian at PLOS Blogs] “Many studies are so thin on details, they’re unverifiable, unusable, or both. Many are too small, badly designed, or otherwise…
Read MoreTo Improve Reproducibility, You Should Talk to Your…Librarian?
[From a guest blog entitled “What To Do About The Reproducibility Crisis” by Letisha Wyatt, posted at jove.com] “Late in my biomedical science graduate training, I learned that researchers often overlook the fundamental processes of adequately preparing data and all…
Read MoreRANDALL & 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…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wall Street Journal (April 16, 2018)
[From the opinion article, “How Bad is the Government’s Science?” by Peter Wood and David Randall, published at http://www.wsj.com%5D “A deeper issue is that the irreproducibility crisis has remained largely invisible to the general public and policy makers. That’s a…
Read MoreJust How Big Is the “Reproducibility Crisis”? Good Question
[From the preprint article “Researcher conduct determines data reliability” by Mark Wass, Larry Ray, and Martin Michaelis] “Our findings demonstrate the need for systematic meta-research on the issue of data reproducibility. A reproducibility crisis is widely recognised among researchers from many different fields….
Read MoreReproducibility crisis? What reproducibility crisis?
[From the opinion article, “Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to?” by Daniele Fanelli, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)] “Efforts to improve the reproducibility and integrity of science are typically…
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