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...
Read ItAvoid 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read Iti 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...
Read ItScientists, 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.
Read ItRESPONSE 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 ...
Read ItContemporary scientific research faces major cultural and institutional hurdles. Some of the primary challenges include an exploding knowledge base and organizational complexity of many scientific ...
Read ItIn 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...
Read ItThis 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...
Read ItIn 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
Read ItReproducibility 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...
Read ItBiomedical 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...
Read ItTo 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItPicture 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...
Read ItDespite 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...
Read ItIt 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...
Read ItOn 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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