Good news for "Research Parasites": NEJM takes it back, 8 years later
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After years of debate, the National Institutes of Health finally rolled out a data sharing policy early this year, one that…
After years of debate, the National Institutes of Health finally rolled out a data sharing policy early this year, one that…
Reproducibility is an essential feature of all scientific outcomes. Scientific evidence can only reach its true status as…
The arXiv preprint server has its roots in an “e-print” email list curated by astrophysicist Joanne Cohn, who in 1989 had the…
A growing trend of information sharing will move science forward, one cardiologist says.
The New England journal of Medicine has come out strongly against Open Access. Apparently, this journal does not seem to value…
(This article was first published on Stories by Matt.0 on Medium, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The “Gold…
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing readers to reproduce and…
Author Julia Koricheva Professor of Ecology, Royal Holloway Royal Holloway The EU has announced a near-total ban on three…
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed One of the most inspiring talks at SMACC Dub was delivered by John Carlisle on the…
By: Elizabeth Gilbert, The Medical University of South Carolina and Katie Corker, Grand Valley State University What is “open…
In presiding over the “cancer moon-shot,” Former Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden described data sharing as being…
Science's historical progress can't be assumed. It has to be reclaimed, re-established. That's more difficult in a fragmented…
Last year in New England Journal of Medicine editors Dan Longo and Jeffrey Drazen made a brazen attack on the very idea of…
It may sound like an insult, but “research parasite” is a label that Casey Greene, PhD, wears with pride—and so do many other…
I provide an update of the recent blog post about a researcher requesting a small set of variables to verify claims appearing…
In a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Brian Strom and his colleagues discuss the preliminary…
Things some clinical and health psychology students wish they had known before they committed themselves to evaluating a…
Gabriella Coleman asked me for a short, general introduction to…
The world’s highest impact factor medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), seems to have been doing some…
I haven’t been blogging that much lately, as I’m tethered to the task of finishing revisions on a book (on the philosophy of…
Over the last few months there has been a lot of vitriol around statistical ideas. First there were data parasites and then…
Patients who contribute their data to research are primarily motivated by a desire to help others with the same plight, through…
Despite earlier concerns by its editors about “data parasites,” the New England Journal of Medicine has now published 4…
This series arguing the case for Open Research has to date looked at some of the issues in scholarly communication today.
Open science has finally hit the mainstream. Alex Lancaster looks at the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and…
Here is your science, academia and publishing update for this week: All scientific papers should be made freely available by…
NEJM 12 May 2016 Vol 374Smoake is dangerous to ye…
After publishing a paper about neuropathy in diabetic patients last week, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM…
A widely derided editorial, a controversial series of articles, and delayed corrections have prompted critics to question the…
Benedikt Fecher and Gert G. Wagner, both also affiliated with the EDaWaX-project, have just published a note in a recent issue…
(Rachel Orr/The Washington Post) In January, the editor of a top medical journal ignited a furious social media backlash by…
One of the most important developments in medicine has been an increasing push for transparency about clinical trials and their…
Editorial policies between the top medical journals differ. Some take a ‘crusading’ view and campaign on contemporary health…
Towards the end of January, there were three editorials in the New England Journal of Medicine with somewhat overlapping…
[Start] We’ve got an explosive episode this week: we’re talking about the schizophrenia genetics paper whose press release has…
Benedikt Fecher and Gert G. Wagner look at a recent editorial which faced considerable criticism for typecasting researchers…
Data collection for a large, well-resourced study of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for psychosis was completed years ago…
Repeated signals that The BMJ is moving forward while editors of other key medical journals try to undermine data sharing.
I read a lot of articles about what is going wrong with science: The reproducibility/replicability…
I read a lot of articles about what is going wrong with science: The reproducibility/replicability…
We are at a tipping point in the struggle for routine data-sharing. We look to journals to implement policies based on a…
Would designating a set of authors as responsible for data production – separate from those who conduct the analysis – help…
Data sharing is all over academic news now. We had Research Parasites, a noxious species of scientists who want to analyse…
I have been traveling a lot over the past couple of weeks, plus, had to meet a tough deadline on submitting a proposal for…
by Judith Curry Don’t let transparency damage science. – Stephan Lewandowsky
I promised some thinking out loud and likely naive and uninformed opinion in my plans for the new year. Here’s a start on that…
Here’s a profile of Vojtech Novotny that makes him look great, because he is. America’s climate refugee crisis has already begun.
Après le dogme cladiste issu du fond des ages, un nouvel épisode de « maman j’ai raté le 21ème siècle », avec l’éditorial du…
Medical editors don’t usually attract much attention. They perform their daily duties evaluating submissions and producing…
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The world's leading medical journals have a proposal that could transform medical science: Researchers would have to publicly…
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Here is your weekly roundup of research news: Have you seen the #ResearchParasites hashtag on Twitter? It’s in response to a…
After a firestorm of criticism on social media over his editorial comments, Jeffrey Drazen, the editor-in-chief of the New…
A couple of days ago one of the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine posted an editorial showing some moderate level…
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A couple of days ago one of the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine posted an editorial showing some moderate level…
NEJM 21 Jan 2016 Vol 374Share data or be…
Vice President Joe Biden recently called for a "moonshot" to cure cancer, which President Obama announced in his State of the…
Hilary and I were snowed in over the weekend, so we recorded Episode 8 of Not So Standard Deviations. In this episode, Hilary…
Hurley Medical Center Confirms ‘Cyber-Attack’ as Anonymous Hacking Group Threatens Action Over Flint Water…
Hilary and I were snowed in over the weekend, so we recorded Episode 8 of Not So Standard Deviations. In this episode, Hilary…
Top News The hacker group Anonymous is presumed to be behind a cyberattack against Flint, MI-based Hurley Medical Center…
Twitter outraged like only Twitter could on January 22 over a strange editorial that appeared in the prestigious New England…
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The aerial view of the concept of collecting data is beautiful. What could be better than high-quality information carefully…
The week at Retraction Watch featured a brewing case over GMO research, a 10-reason retraction. and a retraction and apology…
Apparently researchers who use other’s data without collaborating with them are ‘research parasites’, according to an editorial…
Michael Hoffman did the research world a favour by highlighting a new editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine about…
Only this morning I was chatting to my wife in the car and we were discussing how important generational change is, how it is a…
This week’s SNPpets include a wide range of things. People are indoors and staying warm by typing, I think. Highlights include…
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129659.g003Did you know that SPECT imaging can diagnose PTSD with 100% accuracy (Amen et al., 2015)?
The New England Journal of Medicine is taking a lot of shots for this editorial on the sharing of data. After starting out by…
Two seemingly opposing medical editorials on the subject of data sharing have recently been published. One, by the…
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129659.g003Did you know that SPECT imaging can diagnose PTSD with 100% accuracy (Amen et al., 2015)?