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Why Garbage Science Gets Published
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
Science's Data Secrecy Problem
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
Is Media Driving Americans Apart?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Harassment in Science Is Real
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
One Way to Fix Reproducibility Problems: Train Scientists Better
Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices.
Should Scientists Receive Credit for Peer Review?
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
Interview with Professor John Ioannidis
Research practices, quality in research and researcher commitment are among the topics covered in this inspiring interview.
Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The digital currency is slowing our effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
Our Fight Against Climate Change Is Failing. One Technology Can Change That.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
The Cost of Devaluing Women
We all lose because of the biases of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Why a Lot of Important Research Is Not Being Done
Lawsuits have an intimidating effect on an already difficult enterprise.
Wanted: Academics Wise to the Needs of Government
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn’t exist,” says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Could the Fourth Industrial Revolution Combat Inequality?
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
Make Reviews Public, Says Peer Review Expert
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
Where Does France Really Stand in the Tech World According to the OECD Report
Where Does France Really Stand in the Tech World According to the OECD Report
The OECD has just released a comprehensive report on Science, Technology and Industry for 2017. So how is France doing?
Collective Intelligence Can Change the World
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.
Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case
Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case
Scholarly publishing and academic self-determination are interdependent and a crucial point of future debate for the future of University presses and Open Access worldwide.
Five Things You Can Do Today to Make Tomorrow's Research Open
Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research.
Science holds the key to a more sustainable farm future
As work on 2018 farm bill picks up pace, remember money spent on agricultural science is money well spent.
Is 'Grassroots' Citizen Science a Front for Big Business?
It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business.
A Deceptively Simple Question: What is Open Science?
A definition is nothing without action and engagement.