Imagine if there were a simple single statistical measure everybody could use with any set of data and it would reliably separate…
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Bias Statistical Significance and Its Part in Science DownfallsRead more
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Science Communication Science Buzz and Criticism Get a Powerful BoostRead more
The scientific literature is full of it. By which I mean, of course, spin, error and less-than-reliable results. All that noise…
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Science Communication Motivated Reasoning: Fuel for Controversies, Conspiracy Theories, and MoreRead more
Pieces of information, disputed and not, can be woven very quickly into competing explanatory narratives. Press the right buttons, then it can…
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Science Communication Dancing, sand art and science: Communication by art-y meansRead more
There’s something wonderful about those art forms that can bypass our adult selves and touch the child inside us. Sand art has…
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Evidence Emotional Donating: The Science and Un-Science of Disaster ResponseRead more
Those images send us rushing to donate in droves. That generosity can add up to hundreds of millions of dollars for a…
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Evidence “Trust me, I’m a professor!” Evidence, medical schools & studentsRead more
There are just so many young people here. I’m at the 21st birthday meeting of an organization I got to help build…
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Evidence Blemish: The Truth About BlackheadsRead more
Some old wives’ and doctors’ tales are pretty harmless. Behind the myths about blackheads and acne, though, it gets very ugly. And…
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Science Communication Opening a can of data-sharing wormsRead more
Are researchers’ dogs eating a lot of their homework? Well, yesterday afternoon at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting in Chicago, we…
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Bias Academic Spin: How to Dodge and Weave Past Research ExaggerationRead more
Yesterday’s uplifting emphasis at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting was bad research (“Bad research rising”). This morning’s motivational agenda focused…
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Bias Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publicationRead more
What do the editors of medical journals talk about when they get together? So far today, it’s been a fascinating but rather…
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Evidence Vacation fade-out: Back to work with a thud?Read more
Work can wind us up. Vacations are supposed to wind us down. But just how much benefit do we get from…
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Science Communication Wassup, Wikipedia? Oh … wow!Read more
It’s one of the world’s most used websites – there are more than 20 billion page views a month. That’s hard to…