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Do You Trust What You Read? Results of a Survey of 3000 Academics
[Excerpts taken from the article “Do researchers trust each other’s work?” by David Matthews, published at Times Higher Education] “…do researchers actually trust each other? The answer, according to data from a survey of more than 3,000 scholars across the…
Read MoreWhat 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 MoreThe Research Integrity Police Are Coming To the Journal Near You
[From the article “To catch misconduct, journals are hiring research integrity czars” by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, published at STAT] “Christopher, an editorial assistant at FEBS — for Federation of European Biochemical Societies — Letters in Heidelberg, Germany, is…
Read MoreThe Best Offense for Determining Research Reliability is a Good (Dept. of) Defense?
[From the article “Q&A Adam Russell: Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published at natureindex.com] “Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools that assign confidence…
Read MoreRCTs To Fix Science?
[From a letter published in the September 22 issue of Science entitled “Addressing scientific integrity scientifically”] “To introduce greater rigor into the study of research integrity and the factors that foster or discourage responsible behavior, the participants at the Fifth…
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…
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