Every time a drug company press release of vaccine trial results blasts through the media, it’s followed by criticism of “science by…

A detailed pre-specified protocol is supposed to be the superpower of a systematic review: its contents literally put the “systematic” into review…

It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine, and I think that’s great. But I’ve been hearing variants of…

For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…

Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to…

I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…

With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…

A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed…

When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…

You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…

The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…

This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…