It’s way too easy to get a false impression of a study’s results. The combination of jargon and specialized measurement techniques can get…

I get linked into a lot of thought-provoking debates about blinded peer review because of a post I wrote a couple…

My last post on the use of open science badges for articles set off a flurry of debate. There were…

I like badges – I have a lot of them! I’m also an open science advocate. So when a group of…

Even for an evidence food fight – and those get plenty heated – the hue and cry about the new American Heart…

The case of the missing neurological drug trials remains shrouded in mystery. Nearly 48,000 people took part in these trials for new…

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…

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…

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

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