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IN THE NEWS: Slate (June 20, 2019)
[From the article “We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.” by Kevin Arceneaux, Bert Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, published in Slate] “Our story starts in 2008, when a group of researchers…
Read MoreYour Favorite Journal Does Not Publish “Only the Highest Quality Scientific Research”
In a recent opinion piece for Slate, the ubiquitous Andrew Gelman took the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) to task for claiming that it “only publishes the highest quality scientific research.” As a result, PNAS no longer…
Read MoreBOB REED: Replications Can Make Things Worse? Really?
In a recent article in Slate entitled “The Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research,” IVAN ORANSKY and ADAM MARCUS from Retraction Watch argue that replications can exacerbate research unreliability. The argument assumes that publication bias is more likely to favour confirming replication studies…
Read MoreA Replication Crisis in Cancer Research?
[From the article “Cancer Research is Broken” in Slate] “The deeper problem is that much of cancer research in the lab—maybe even most of it—simply can’t be trusted. The data are corrupt. The findings are unstable. The science doesn’t work. In…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Slate (April 15, 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “The Reproducibility Crisis Is Good for Science”) The author, an editor at Nature, reports on ways the reproducibility crisis is promoting change in science. An excerpt: “For what it’s worth, articles about confirmation bias and the misuse of p-values…
Read MoreReplication Bombshells in Psychology: They Just Keep Coming
[From the article “Everything is Crumbling” in Slate] “A paper now in press, and due to publish next month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describes a massive effort to reproduce the main effect that underlies [the psychological theory of ego…
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