Astral Codex endorses justice delayed on the replication crisis

A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science

The £2 million recently awarded to a whistleblower by a US court is a rare reward for the volunteers who trawl the scientific literature for error and fraud. Yet their numbers continue to grow. So wha...

Trump administration declines to renew appointment of Walter Koroshetz, against NIH director’s wishes

Data detectives see validation in deal with U.S. government that penalizes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for misrepresenting data in NIH grant applications

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

It's only getting more popular

Results from a new poll

The many unopened boxes of psychology

There's not as much math as you'd expect

I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...

Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts

It turns out all you need is money and a googol of hypotheses to write up

As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels.

Addressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Harvard leads the world in science and in philosophizing on how to make the world a better place. It’s time to make metascience a bigger part of the conversation.

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The NIH Common Fund has teamed up with NASA’s Tournament Lab to launch the Replication Prize, a competition to advance scientific research by collecting ideas and strategies to make important lines of...

It evolved that way

Dare to say you believe some things are true

We all benefit from a well-functioning and well-funded NIH. But it needs reform, writes the Good Science Project’s Stuart Buck.

A FOIA mystery is solved

"The spirit of the FOIA"

The federal government should establish a system for awarding bounties to people who identify fraud in federally-funded research.

As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.

A Sensible Medicine Guest Post

Each market is safe

What happens when the greatest strengths of science, such as openness, humility, self-criticism and self-correction, are exploited for political gain? This Perspective calls for scientists to affirm t...

There is much enthusiasm, in principle, for adversarial collaborations (ACs), a scientific conflict resolution technique that encourages investigators with clashing models to collaborate in designing ...

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