Reproducing experiments is more complicated than it seems
A new way to measure whether an experimental result is really replicated.
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Unbehagen in der Wissenschaft
Nachwuchsforscher stehen unter hohem Druck: Gefragt sind Publikationen und Mobilität, Freiräume dagegen sind rar. Die Akademien der Wissenschaften der Schweiz machen die schwierige Situation zum Thema einer Tagung an der Universität Zürich.
Two stem cell papers retracted
Two retractions highlight long-standing issues of trust and sloppiness that must be addressed
Reproducible research is still a challenge
rOpenSci was awarded $300k from the Sloan Foundation to develop tools that are at least as easy to use before we can expect project reproducibility to become mainstream.
Guide to reproducible research
Collection of literature, presentations, posts and links on reproducible research resulting from a recent Hackathon on open science.
Metaphysicians
Launch of METRICS, the Meta-Research Innovation Centre at Stanford, by John Ioannidis.
Science's shameful secret
At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?
Ten simple rules for reproducible computational research
Good habits of reproducibility may actually turn out to be a time-saver in the longer run.
Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action
Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action
Publicity spurs science study retractions 7 times more often.
Fake papers a symptom of more serious problems in academia
One of the biggest stories in academia recently was the retraction of more than 120 papers by well-known journal publishers Springer and the IEEE.
Stem-cell method faces fresh questions
Papers describing acid-bath technique under more scrutiny after institute’s investigation finds errors in methodology
New truths that only one can see
Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.
NIH plans to enhance reproducibility
Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.
Unabhängige Forschung: Forscher, wehrt euch!
Im Geschäft der Erkenntnisgewinnung läuft zu viel schief. Zum Glück gibt es Menschen, die das ändern wollen.
The case of the tuberculosis drugome
How easy is it to reproduce the results found in a typical computational biology paper? Either through experience or intuition the reader will already know that the answer is with difficulty or not at all.
Implausible results in human nutrition research
Definitive solutions won’t come from another million observational papers or small randomized trials by John P A Ioannidis
The risks of the replication drive
The push to replicate findings could shelve promising research and unfairly damage the reputations of careful, meticulous scientists, says Mina Bissell.
Center for Open Science
Reproducibility Initiative Receives $1.3M Grant to Validate 50 Landmark Cancer
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