Reproducibility and Replicability Knowledge

 

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of Six Papers by Top Researchers

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking to retract six studies and correct 31 other papers as part of a probe involving four of its senior cancer researchers and administrators.

History and Methods of Psychology Syllabus

This course is designed to expose students to the history of psychology through a study of the methods used in research over time, with an emphasis on methods used in developmental psychology. Unlike most traditional history of psychology courses, we …

History repeating: Guidelines to address common problems in psychedelic science

Research in the last decade has expressed considerable optimism about the clinical potential of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders. This optimism is reflected in an increase in research papers, investments by pharmaceutical companies, …

How (and Whether) to Teach Undergraduates About the Replication Crisis in Psychological Science

Over the past 10 years, crises surrounding replication, fraud, and best practices in research methods have dominated discussions in the field of psychology. However, no research exists examining how to communicate these issues to undergraduates and …

How scientists can stop fooling themselves

Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.

How to Make More Published Research True

An essay about How to Make More Published Research True

How to Produce, Identify, and Motivate Robust Psychological Science: A Roadmap and a Response to Vize et al.

Some wish to mandate preregistration as a response to the replication crisis, while I and others caution that such mandates inadvertently cause harm and distract from more critical reforms. In this article, after briefly critiquing a recently …

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

A blog about reproducibility crisis

Identifying Participants in the Personal Genome Project by Name

We linked names and contact information to publicly available profiles in the Personal Genome Project. These profiles contain medical and genomic information, including details about medications, procedures and diseases, and demographic information, …

Improving (Our) Science

The goal of science is to accumulate knowledge about nature. There are scientific values guiding how scientists should work, and scientific practices guiding how scientists do work. This course will examine the discrepancy between scientific values …