It’s a classic vicious cycle. Post-internet, misinformation and ideas previously doomed to be only fringe-worthy spread far and fast. The faster misinformation…
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Listicles Post-Truth Antidote: Our Roles in Virtuous Spirals of Trust in Science
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Evidence Fertility Hedge Fund? Pros and Cons of Egg Banking
Freezing and storing your own eggs when you are not trying to get pregnant used to be rare. It was something…
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Listicles Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible Future
Editor’s note: Read Hilda’s October 26, 2016 @redditscience conversation on Open Access in Action here plos.io/OAweek16AMA An old tradition and a new technology…
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History What Lies Beneath a Scientist’s Life: A Father and Son Story
It was one of those lovely, comfortable conversations between people who have known each other a long time. I took this selfie…
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Listicles Flying Flak and Avoiding “ad hominem” Response
It was easy to work out where I stood in a fairly recent outburst of name-calling from one of the pillars of…
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Bias This is How Research Gender-Bias Bias Works
But how can you tell? She wanted to know why I said some work on gender bias was obviously too biased to…
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Bias Gender-Bias Bias Part 2: Unpicking Cherry-Picking
When you think about it, the possibilities for cherry-picking when you discuss research these days are growing in rather spectacular leaps…
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Bias Winning! Or Is It? The Science of Winners’ Fate
Between the Olympics and a tumultuous U.S. general election, wanting to win really badly is dominating the airwaves at the moment. How…
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Evidence The Resilience of Brain Training Hype: ACTIVE Trial Redux
It was definitely déjà vu in the media today. Reuters, The Times, Los Angeles Times, and more were back on the…
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Bias Psychology’s Meta-Analysis Problem
Psychology has a meta-analysis problem. And that’s contributing to its reproducibility problem. Meta-analyses are wallpapering over many research weaknesses, instead of being…
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Listicles Research Nirvana: The Generosity Edition
Research Nirvana… What would it be like and what paths could lead us there? That was the theme of my recent talk at the…
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Evidence Unsnarling the Complexity of Naming and Shaming
Shame isn’t always powerful. It can cause just a pinprick of discomfort that’s not even blush-worthy. But it can be so…