My last post on the use of open science badges for articles set off a flurry of debate. There were…
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Bias What’s Open, What’s Data? What’s Proof, What’s Spin?
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Bias Bias in Open Science Advocacy: The Case of Article Badges for Data Sharing
I like badges – I have a lot of them! I’m also an open science advocate. So when a group of…
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Bias Saturated Biases: Where the AHA Advice on Coconut Oil Went Wrong
Even for an evidence food fight – and those get plenty heated – the hue and cry about the new American Heart…
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Bias The Case of the Missing Neuro Drug Trials
The case of the missing neurological drug trials remains shrouded in mystery. Nearly 48,000 people took part in these trials for new…
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Bias This is How Research Gender-Bias Bias Works
But how can you tell? She wanted to know why I said some work on gender bias was obviously too biased to…
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Bias Gender-Bias Bias Part 2: Unpicking Cherry-Picking
When you think about it, the possibilities for cherry-picking when you discuss research these days are growing in rather spectacular leaps…
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Bias Winning! Or Is It? The Science of Winners’ Fate
Between the Olympics and a tumultuous U.S. general election, wanting to win really badly is dominating the airwaves at the moment. How…
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Bias Psychology’s Meta-Analysis Problem
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…
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Bias A Reader’s Guide to Conflicts of Interest in Biomedicine
The academic clinician in this cartoon needs 15 slides to list all the drug and device manufacturers he’s received money from recently…
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Bias The Skills We All Need to Move Past “Anti-Science” and “Us”
If you didn’t believe a prevailing scientific position, you used to be part of a small fringe. To get information on your side…
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Bias How to Spot Research Spin: The Case of the Not-So-Simple Abstract
Spin doctoring is deliberate manipulation. I don’t think everyday research spin is intended to deceive, though. Mostly it’s because researchers want to get attention…
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Bias The Mess That Trials Stopped Early Can Leave Behind
Many trials end with a whimper. But some end with a bang. Press release, press conference, lots of fanfare &ndash…