Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results − a problem for science the pandemic worsened but didn’t create
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by Dennis M. Gorman, Texas A
by Dennis M. Gorman, Texas A
The pandemic spurred an increase in COVID-19 research, much of it with methodological holes. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via…
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Limited reproducibility and validity are major sources of concern in biology and other fields of science. Their origins have…
Food is LoveAs a child, I was a big fan of the Peanuts cartoons. One of my favorite characters was Snoopy, a suave, bipedal…
Scientific publishing has become a game between scientists and journals. Scientists try to convince the journals to publish…
Linus Pauling (1901-1994). Ganador de dos premios Nobel. Uno de los padres de la química cuántica y de la biología molecular.
Grant capture, or the ability of researchers to secure funding for their projects, is often used as a formal metric for…
I caused unease on Twitter this week when I criticised a piece in the Times Higher Education on 'How to win a research grant'.
The ability to reproduce research affects the credibility of science; Prof. John Ioannidis of Stanford points out what’s wrong…
This post is part of a series on emerging research challenges and solutions. The introduction to the series is available here…
I’ve always suspected that Stanford University professor John Ioannidis was only posing as a science reformer. His commentary…
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr in Times Higher Education: Given the entirely appropriate degree of respect that science has for…
Science’s credibility crisis is making headlines once more thanks to a paper from John P. A. Ioannidis and co-authors. Ioannidis…
This post is a translation of an article originally published in French in Médecine/Sciences. The Editorial of the same issue (al…
Opinion: Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results. The post Want to Fix Science’s…
Got your PhD recently? Then you should be publishing your findings ASAP if you haven’t already. There are of course some…
I’ve been thinking a bit on statistical tests, their absence, abuse, and limits. I think much of the current “scientific…
In May 2017, the 5th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Amsterdam. It will provide an opportunity to…
Like all patients, what I want most from clinical research is treatments that work, not ones that merely look good on paper. As…
Over the years, I have written a lot about how we come to hold and maintain false beliefs in medicine. Perhaps the lion’s share…
Today John Ioannidis visited the Broad Institute and gave a talk entitled “Meta-research: where do we stand in research on…
Twitter outraged like only Twitter could on January 22 over a strange editorial that appeared in the prestigious New England…
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There is an intense ongoing conversation in the scientific community on how best to determine the value of scholarly work, in…
Now in its eighth year, Open Access Week provides an opportunity to celebrate progress and bring additional awareness to help…
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PLOS Science Wednesday is a weekly science communication series featuring live, direct chats with PLOS authors on redditscience …
Here’s the long original version of my article in Nautilus on cognitive biases in science. I was moved to think about this…
Scholarly research is a great source for rigorous, unbiased information, but making judgments about its quality can be difficult.
This week the National Centre for the Replacement Refinement
I’m doing a presentation at this week’s Ontario Library Association Super Conference on a case study of my Canadian War on…
The core principle of evidence-based medicine is that not all evidence is created equal. Controlled scientific studies provide…
Follow-up post where I share a list and chart of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs in the 2014 Altmetric…
©CartoonStock.com As Fergus Millar noted in…
When I was a young scientist (quite some time ago) there…
A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently:'To Burn Off Calories in This Soda, Walk 5 Miles' - new…
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Self-harm in adolescents predicts later mental health problems
John Ioannidis’ 2005 article was hugely influential in presenting a powerful argument as to why most published…
JunkScience.com has been right for 17.5 years! Here’s the study. A key passage: Here’s the media release: Most published…