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Georgeta Vaidean

@georgeta.bsky.social
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MD/MPH/PhD. UNC@Chapel Hill Alumna. CVD Epi. MayoCl crtf'ed HWC. Lifestyle Med. Prev. Cardio. Behavioral Cardiology. Research. Teaching. Speaking. Traveling. Dancing. #CardioSky #MedSky

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"It is time to stop applauding endurance as a solution. True institutional strength comes not from the capacity of individuals to survive, but from systems that are designed to support, rather than exploit, their communities."
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It’s time to stop celebrating resilience
When universities ask their staff to do more with less, is it really a test of individual fortitude? Rachelle McKay explains why we should stop praising endurance
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kireports.bsky.social @kireports.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨 #Tweetorial alert🚨- brought to you by @kireports.bsky.social @theisn.org #NephTwitter Not all preeclampsia (PE) is the same. New data on isolated PE vs. PE-HELLP syndrome—and why close monitoring matters for patients' cardiovascular and kidney health www.kireports.org/article/S246...
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What is messing with the journal papers is predictable Human Behavior of people functioning in an ecosystem where authorship and research became a commodity. Evidence that Goodhart's Law is valid. AI is the 'stress test' for human individual and collective faults.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 07/09/2026
How contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔓 rdcu.be/F4xbQcesvGya
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How contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Perspective, Haubrock et al. argue that today’s scientific structures constrain creativity and that strategic conformity is a rational response. They discuss how this holds back early-career r...
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American College of Cardiology @accintouch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Receive up to $70,000 in funding ➕ support to advance #cardiovascular health in rural and underserved communities through research, innovation and community engagement. Learn more and apply by Oct. 22 ➡️ bit.ly/3Uprfpv #ACCFIT #ACCEarlyCareer #ACCHealthEquity #SDOH #CardioSky
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/08/2026
New blog post in which we discover the secret to immortality: accounting errors. www.the100.ci/2026/08/08/m...
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My Immortal Time Bias
Preamble: This shortie is my attempt to come up with an example that makes the problem underlying immortal time bias as obvious as possible.  In Japan, people who reach the age of 100 are handed a co...
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RJIM @rjmedicine.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New in RJIM: PubMed articles attributed to medical students rose 1,329% from 2012–2022. But 1 in 4 were never cited, and pay-to-publish rates quadrupled. Are we chasing quantity over quality? Read more: www.rjmedicine.org/publications... #MedEd #MedStudent #RJIM #MedSky
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Trends in Medical Student-Authored Publications, 2012-2022
Medical student research has dramatically increased over the last ten years The quality of medical student research has remained relatively stable over the last ten years Medical student research pers...
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RJIM @rjmedicine.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
RJIM is now live and open for submissions! #MedSky #internalmedicine
Call for submissions for the researchers’ journal of internal medicine
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I wrote to Director Bhattacharya with an idea about how to convert these "scientific freedom" lectures into something potentially useful. 1/3
Dear Director Bhattacharya:  I saw that you held the second "Scientific Freedom" lecture today featuring Gary Taubes, a journalist, author, and diet advocate with no advanced scientific training and undergraduate training in physics rather than anything related to biology or medicine. I remain mystified about the "Freedom" refers to in the title of this series other than (thus far) the freedom to pontificate about topics for which one has no substantial training nor peer-reviewed publication record.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
kagi really is that good y’all. big stress reliever to have a proper search engine again. (i don’t take compensation for posts as a rule, this is just me wanting them to have a solid subscriber base so they can offer the service long-term)
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Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the fi...
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American Journal of Hypertension @amjhypertension.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#HotOffThePress academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-... Effects of Time in Target Range of Systolic Blood Pressure Control on New-Onset Cardiovascular Diseases and All-Cause Mortality in Young and Middle-Aged Adults with Hypertension
graphical abstract
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Super happy to have contributed to this super important and timely paper, "Using Routinely Collected Data for Research Purposes: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies", led by @sabinehoffmann11.bsky.social and just published in @bmj.com... www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Epidemiology Job Openings (EpiJobs) @epijobs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Associate Professor/Clinical Investigator - Nephrology Danville, Pennsylvania United States #Epijobs careers.apha.org/jobs/2227853...
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Associate Professor/Clinical Investigator - Nephrology in Danville, PA for Geisinger
Exciting opportunity in Danville, PA for Geisinger as a Associate Professor/Clinical Investi...
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The very definition of a lot what's going on in the evidence-free wellness sphere.
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Nature @nature.com · 27/05/2026
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk
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Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
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Mario Kratz @mariokratz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I just released a new YouTube video and blog post titled "Why Low-Carb Works - But Carbs Aren't Actually the Problem." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrfT...
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Why Low-Carb Works - But Carbs Aren’t Actually the Problem
YouTube video by Nourished by Science
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Not sure about navigating these waters...Magic? Alchemy? Flying carpets?
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 17/05/2026
Fish oil and heart disease (from Late colleague George Fodor who lived to take down such BS) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25064579/
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"Fishing" for the origins of the "Eskimos and heart disease" story: facts or wishful thinking? - PubMed
During the 1970s, 2 Danish investigators, Bang and Dyerberg, on being informed that the Greenland Eskimos had a low prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) set out to study the diet of this popula...
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
When you are hired & After your first year in Academia when you finished talking with all the deans, associated deans, assistant deans about your professional aspirations
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry Nancy Karreman, Marco Zenone, Nason Maani, Benjamin Hawkins doi.org/10.1111/1468... #CDoH #COI
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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi-trillion-dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well-being. Applying a lens of commercial determin...
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
But "Real World Evidence" is a marketing term, not a scientific one, invented to help organizations wanting avoid the scrutiny that RCTs bring to their products. Reasonable people might say that RWE compliments RCTs, but there is *a lot* of effort to convince regulators to use it in place of RCTs.
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
100%🎯 Big Wellness aims to normalize snake oil. Also, by claiming to go to the 'root cause' of diseases, they are diverting attention from one of the strongest root causes, SES.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 28/02/2026
The ultimate goal of wellness consumerism is to shift all responsibility to the individual health consumer who then gets the "freedom" of navigating an unregulated snake oil market.
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“Giving less power to statistical power” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/22/g...
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“Giving less power to statistical power” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Stephen Senn @stephensenn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Want to make your research more meaningful? Ornithology? Smear the lenses of your binoculars with vaseline. You may not be able to tell a hawk from an eagle but you won’t mistake a sparrow for an ostrich. Clinical research? Why not use responder dichotomies? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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An Empirical Assessment of the Cost of Dichotomization of the Outcome of Clinical Trials
We have studied 21 435 unique randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). Of these trials, 7224 (34%) have a continuous (numerical) outcome and 14 211 (66%) have a binary outcome. We find that trials ...
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Dichotomization is only one of the issues leading to the vicious circle of #ResearchWaste. Many reasons, one I'm finding deeply troubling, being the suboptimal (oh, I'm polite), suboptimal (quantity & quality) education in biostats & research methods in med schools. #MedEd has serious catch up to do
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The stupidity, the criminal vandalism, the wanton destruction of information involved in dichotomisation statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/14/t...
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The stupidity, the criminal vandalism, the wanton destruction of information involved in dichotomisation | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now watch the video!👇🏼
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Creatine & Cancer 'risk'😅 in NHANES: Food measured post cc Dx, survivors, reverse causation, residual confounding, overadjustment, collider bias, sparse upper tail data, model driven shape. Smooth looking noise. Yay for a great case study to show my students🚀🥳 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Disease surveillance capacity is very useful, particularly when integrated with decision making by design. We should build even more. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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We must no longer accept waiting years to understand disease burden
One of the most important advances to emerge from the covid-19 pandemic is the ability to measure population health at unprecedented scale and speed. Our study of time trends for long term conditions,...
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American Journal of Preventive Cardiology @ajpcardio.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New systemwide analysis shows trends in lipoprotein(a) testing are evolving and may significantly influence clinical decision-making and cardiovascular risk management. ow.ly/5nL150XZTaL #Lp(a) #CardiovascularCare #ClinicalPractice #CardioSky #MedSky
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In the meantime, people who are specifically trained to provide evidence-based patient counseling services, are rarely incorporated into the proverbial 'multidisciplinary teams'. Because the 'system' is not built for that.
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
While authors use careful language, aficionados r already rejoicing. Massive threats to causal inference, res. confounding, colliders, etc...., most in direction of overestimation.To separate signal from noise we need serious causal thinking-driven research & edu. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Minimum and optimal combined variations in sleep, physical activity, and nutrition in relation to all-cause mortality risk - BMC Medicine
Background Sleep, physical activity, and nutrition (SPAN) are critical behaviours for health, although they have traditionally been studied separately. We examined the combined associations of SPAN an...
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New PubPeer comments: @ioanaacristea.bsky.social on the post-hoc study registry = violation of the Helsinki declaration) @ianhussey.mmmdata.io with a full table of effect sizes (many impossibly large, d > 7) me just about the large SMD of the main result and what this means (shit vs. chocolate)
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PubPeer - The effects of Omega-3 supplementation on stress, anxiety, d...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: The effects of Omega-3 supplementation on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and everyday memory in individuals with psychological distress: A r...
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Abstract deadline extended to Jan 12. Everyone enjoying holidays will appreciate this :-) The Art and Science of SDM is the way to go for genuine patient-centered care and true personalized medicine. So much to learn. So much to translate to practice.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
IFM in its best form is practicing off rodent studies &underpowered trials measuring non-validated surrogate risk factors. It centers provider enthusiasm abt their favorite mechanism & high risk of bias data over providing real patient centered care that communicatess honestly what we know/dont
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
We know the drivers of research waste in academia are ⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students ⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management ⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work Solutions that don't address these are pointless.
A broken record (vinyl music album)
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I chatted with Evan McLoughlin on The Giant's Shoulder podcast about the flaws that undermine claims of a link between autism and the microbiome cc @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0S...
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Dr Kevin Mitchell: What Really Causes Autism?, Tylenol & The Gut Microbiome!
YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We did a thing. 😬
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Georgeta Vaidean @georgeta.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Europe's larges research info search engine/discovery platform LIVIVO, operated by the German National Library of Medicine, ZB-MED: now indexing preprints. Great filters and search functions. This alternative to PubMed is growing bold & fast 😍
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is
Illustration of various woodland animals (fox, badger, rabbits, mice, squirrel, hedgehog) circle dancing in an autumn forest.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A letter from myself and @jdwilko.bsky.social that expands on this a bit more. Thanks to Fertility and Sterility for the opportunity. doi.org/10.1016/j.fe...
Nonrandomized studies of
interventions - complementary or
just convenient?
Schwarze et al. (1) present recommendations to improve the
quality of nonrandomized studies of interventions (NRSIs).
Given the methodological errors we regularly encounter
when reading and reviewing NRSIs in assisted reproductive
technologies (ART), we support the need for such
recommendations to help researchers better design,
analyze, and interpret these studies. That said, we are
concerned that those who require such guidance will,
almost by definition, not understand when the use of
NRSIs is warranted, or mistake them as viable alternatives
to randomized controlled trials (RCTs), despite reassurances
from Schwarze et al. (1) that NRSIs should be viewed as
complementary. Our concerns are particularly relevant for
ART, where regulation is limited, commercial conflicts of
interest are common, and interventions are regularly
adopted before they are evaluated using RCTs. To be clear,
we do not see these as points of disagreement with
Schwarze et al. (1), but rather as additional points for
consideration.
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Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
i have this easy to use surgery cheatsheet for all you stats peeps who're missing out:
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JAMA @jama.com · 14/08/2025
Eliminating barriers to #mentalhealth care for physicians is essential to prevent untreated conditions and suicides, improve well-being, and maintain high-quality patient care. ja.ma/4mH9myk
JAMA Special Communication: Reducing Barriers to Mental Health Care for Physicians. Overview & Strategic Recommendations. Published online August 14, 2025. Discusses challenges and initiatives.
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American College of Cardiology @accintouch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The 🆕 AHA/ACC/Multisociety #ClinicalGuideline on high blood pressure provides updated recommendations for clinicians on the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults. Get the details ➡️ bit.ly/47xv5o7 #Hypertension #JACC #CardioSky #MedSky
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JAMA @jama.com · 10/08/2025
📌 The SPIRIT 2025 statement updates the guidelines for randomized trial protocols to enhance their completeness, transparency, and consistency, benefiting stakeholders involved in clinical research. ja.ma/4fzMVZS
Figure.  SPIRIT 2025 Diagram of the Schedule of Enrollment, Interventions, and Assessments
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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 26/07/2025
View the DCI Network Conference Patient-Powered Progress: Revolutionary Digital Strategies for Optimal Patient Engagement and Healthcare Delivery Wednesday, June 25-27, 2025 | Harvard University Recordings: www.dcinetwork.org/collection/c... View Highlights at www.linkedin.com/pulse/view-r...
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American Journal of Preventive Cardiology @ajpcardio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🆕 New in AJPC: High-Density Lipoproteins, Part 1 Explore HDL's role in CVD prevention—epidemiology, antiatherogenic effects & therapies to raise serum levels. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #HDL #Cardiology #LipidHealth #AJPC #PreventiveCardiology
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 18/07/2025
Do beta blockers still belong among the contemporary therapies for ischemic heart disease? The latest episode of the Beyond Journal Club podcast from @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group explores the REDUCE-AMI trial. Full episode: nej.md/4ekdlxX  #MedSky #CardioSky
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“We pay experts to examine important and influential scientific publications for errors ... We expect most published research to contain some errors ... our reward system pays bonuses to both authors and reviewers even when minor errors are found ..." statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/13/e...
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The ERROR project: “We pay experts to examine important and influential scientific publications for errors . . . We expect most published research to contain at least some errors . . . our reward sy...
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