We were confused and perplexed. Our team in the laboratory of Pamela Ronald at the University of California, Davis could not reproduce previously published results. Instead of building on the repor...
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Avoid having to retract your genomics analysis.
Biology is a data-science
The dramatic plunge in DNA sequencing costs means that a single MSc or PhD student can now generate data that would have co...
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The first academic journal was created by Henry Oldenburg (1619--1677), first Secretary of the Royal Society. Rather than wait years for scientists to publish their findings in books, Oldenburg wan...
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i am not going to say anything original in this post.
my philosophy of science friends tell me that i should abandon popper. before i do, i'd like to have one last fling with him.
i am teaching t...
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Scientists, institutions and journals have been increasingly evaluated statistically, by metrics that focus on the number of published reports rather than on their content, raising a concern that ...
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Part 2 from a 2-part series reflecting on lessons learned from OpenCon 2014.
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RESPONSE TO
FIEDLER’S POST ON THE REPLICATION
We would like to address the two main
arguments in Dr. Fiedler’s post on https://www.dgps.de/index.php?id=2000735
1), that the notably lower average ...
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Contemporary scientific research faces
major cultural and institutional hurdles. Some of the primary challenges
include an exploding knowledge base and organizational complexity of many
scientific ...
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In several recent articles, I proposed the
creation of new graduate programs aimed at training scientific generalists.
Here, I collect and respond to a number of comments and criticisms raised in...
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This
is the shorted version of an article I published on 28.04.2016 on my site, For
Better Science.
Open Science
is these days largely about mandatory publishing
in Open Access (OA), regardless of...
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In this essay the requirements for a perfectly
replicable study are described as well as the active initiatives which promote
the open practices for data and materials availability
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Reproducibility is the
cornerstone of scientific research. A lack of reproduced data causes knowledge
gaps, skepticism towards scientific research and an inability to subject
hypotheses to changing...
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Biomedical science
is recovering from an existential crisis. Recent reports have highlighted major
problems with the reproducibility and reliability of a diverse range of
scientific fields, includi...
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To err is human. Scientists being human, they make
mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed
out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
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The Same Thing Over and Over
Again
When scientists fail to reproduce the results of multiple
experiments the support previously provided for theories breaks down. This is a
modern phenomenon in sc...
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Picture the following scenario; an undergraduate research course,
in which a group of students are tasked with setting up and running an
experiment based on a paper from the research literature. Th...
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Despite science being a beacon of innovation,
invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained
relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
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It
is commonly accepted that there is a crisis of reproducibility in science
[1]. But how can this trend be reversed when bibliometrics such as the
h-index tend to encourage quantity and increment...
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On
Human Immunodeficiency Virus’s Potency to Freeze the Immune
Response
By: GX8
This
Paper explains why the immune system (either of human or animals)
cannot eradicate the virus that has been...
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