I concede that there is a strong argument against developing an evidence base on vacations. What difference would it make?…
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Evidence Evidence-Based Vacation Should Totally Be a ThingRead more
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Bias Can Anything Really Stop the Science Spin Snowball?Read more
With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…
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Evidence Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?Read more
Just how reliable are our memories of what we ate? How about what we will admit to having eaten? Questions…
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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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Science Communication 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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Science Communication 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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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…