Just how reliable are our memories of what we ate? How about what we will admit to having eaten? Questions…
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Evidence Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?Read more
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Science Communication “Destructo-Critics” and Mean Bloggers: The StudyRead more
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?Read more
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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Evidence Science: A Method for Increasing the Number of QuestionsRead more
A long time ago, I first encountered science seriously as a health consumer advocate. And I thought of medical…
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Peer review research roundup Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)Read more
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…
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Peer review research roundup Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)Read more
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Bias Should We Trust Meta-Analyses with Meta-Conflicts of Interest?Read more
There are a couple of angles to look at researcher conflict of interest from. One is that a conflict could distort…
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Bias A Classic Case of Science “He Said”, “She Said”: How Psychologists Trying to Prevent PTSD Got ControversialRead more
Natural disasters have a lot in common with other major traumas, like life-threatening accidents and mass shootings – especially…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 4 — From Anthropologists to Academic SurgeonsRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the origin stories of African-American STEM societies, and the amazing people who started…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 3 — From Sociologists to EngineersRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the founding stories of African-American STEM societies. In previous posts we’ve covered groups from…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 2 — From Psychologists to MathematiciansRead more
After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 1 — The First Wave (1895 to 1947)Read more
When we celebrate STEM history, we tend to focus on individuals singled out for specific inspiring scientific achievements. And that’s…