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 Radical Vaccine Trial Transparency & Press Release Readouts: What’s the Problem?
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Bias Let’s Be Serious About Bias in Protocols of Systematic Reviews
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 Preprints
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 2019
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…
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Science Communication Who You Gonna Search? Engine News for Systematic Reviewers
Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to…
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Science Communication Google Scholar Risks and Alternatives
I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…
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Bias Can Anything Really Stop the Science Spin Snowball?
With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…
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Science Communication “Destructo-Critics” and Mean Bloggers: The Study
A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed…
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Reproducibility Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?
When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…
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Science Communication Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…
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Science Communication Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand
This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…