On this one, I agree with the journalist that the political scientist got it wrong.

Correlation does not imply causation and psychologists' causal inference training often focuses on the conclusion that therefore experiments are needed—without much consideration for the causal infer...

Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau

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 (...

Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which funded the controversial study, say that it will proceed as planned.

Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

Støtte. Kontroversielle danske forskere har fået millioner fra amerikanske Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s ministerium til et nyt vaccineforsøg. Anerkendt professor kalder det »dybt uetisk«.

Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe

Opløsning. Statistikprofessorer hiver med ny analyse tæppet væk under kendt vaccinepars mange lodtrækningsforsøg. De er oversolgte og støtter ikke hypotesen om uspecifikke vaccineeffekter, slår profes...

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

Regeringens nye forskningsplan lover risikovillighed og langsigtet tænkning, men uden dybere reformer af systemet risikerer man, at systemet ikke kan absorbere forskningsmidlerne effektivt, skriver Je...

Den hårde konkurrence om forskningsmidlerne har skabt en ond cirkel, hvor forskere bruger mere tid på ansøgninger end på forskning. Hvis Danmark vil sikre reel fri forskning, kræver det et mere bæredy...

Ethnography complicates a convenient narrative

And our responsibility

Abstract. The Villum Experiment (VEX) is one of the few funding schemes that employs a double-blind review process where applicants are blinded to reviewers, applications are highly standardised, revi...

Some brief thoughts on the call for Gold Standard Science

The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

If the Trump administration were truly concerned about antisemitism, it would start in its own house.

JD Vance in Greenland

Find de bedste europæiske alternativer til populære amerikanske tjenester som Google, Facebook, X, Gmail og flere.

History offers a range of precedents for what an agreement with Russia could look like—and how bad the consequences might be.

How regime change happens in America

Her er min liste over software, hardware, sociale medier til at skifte amerikansk tech ud med europæiske, gerne danske, alternativer, eller noget, der er open source og/eller nonprofit.  Først et par ...

America hurt itself badly today.

It could have been a tragic story costing British volunteer Edward Scott his life. As a humanitarian aid worker with the Ukrainian NGO "Baza" (the "Base" in Ukrainian), 28-year-old Scott has made mul...

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"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.