It was easy to work out where I stood in a fairly recent outburst of name-calling from one of the pillars of…

But how can you tell? She wanted to know why I said some work on gender bias was obviously too biased to…

When you think about it, the possibilities for cherry-picking when you discuss research these days are growing in rather spectacular leaps…

Between the Olympics and a tumultuous U.S. general election, wanting to win really badly is dominating the airwaves at the moment. How…

It was definitely déjà vu in the media today. Reuters, The Times, Los Angeles Times, and more were back on the…

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…

Research Nirvana… What would it be like and what paths could lead us there? That was the theme of my recent talk at the…

Shame isn’t always powerful. It can cause just a pinprick of discomfort that’s not even blush-worthy. But it can be so…

The academic clinician in this cartoon needs 15 slides to list all the drug and device manufacturers he’s received money from recently…

There’s a lot of hype in scientific publications – and about them, too. Hype doesn’t help if we want to make informed decisions…

The hunt for p-values less than 0.05 has left many of science’s roadways riddled with potholes. More than 50% of them in…

If you didn’t believe a prevailing scientific position, you used to be part of a small fringe. To get information on your side…