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VON HIPPEL: When Does Science Self-Correct? Lessons from a Replication Crisis in Early 20th Century Chemistry
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at The Good Science Project (click here) Science is self-correcting—or so we are told. But in truth it can be very hard to expunge errors from the scientific record. In…
Read MoreREED: 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 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…
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