It’s been 6 years since the last results arrived from a randomized trial of revealing or concealing authors’ names for journal peer…
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Science Communication Experiments on Naming Authors in Peer Review – Now With a New Kid on the BlockRead more
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Science Communication Bad and Good(-ish) News on the Abstract Spin CycleRead more
Abstracts are central to the science communication process. The words in them can lead searchers to find a paper. Because they’re the…
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Science Communication Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk StatisticsRead more
Back in the good old days, we only had to tear our hair out when people used relative risks without context, thereby…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021Read more
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Bias A Communication Research Unicorn! Decent Evidence You Can Change People’s Minds & Actions Via Social MediaRead more
The field of research on communication interventions is heavily littered with studies that are too small, too indirect, and too riddled with…
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Science Communication A Cartoon Guide to Criticism: Scientist EditionRead more
Science is a profession where critique is integral to the work itself. So you might think we’d all have both criticizing, and…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2020Read more
It’s a fundamental part of science – and yet peer review is not itself very science-based. It needs to be. The premise…
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Bias Radical Vaccine Trial Transparency & Press Release Readouts: What’s the Problem?Read more
Every time a drug company press release of vaccine trial results blasts through the media, it’s followed by criticism of “science by…
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Bias Let’s Be Serious About Bias in Protocols of Systematic ReviewsRead more
A detailed pre-specified protocol is supposed to be the superpower of a systematic review: its contents literally put the “systematic” into review…
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Covid-19 Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of PreprintsRead more
It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine, and I think that’s great. But I’ve been hearing variants of…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019Read more
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…