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Science and Pseudoscience BBC Radio Talk

A podcast about science and pseudoscience

Science for Progress Initiative

The Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI) is designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process. SfPI's purpose is to produce rigorous, quantitative evidence from randomized evaluations on the most effective approaches to funding and …

Science isn't Broken

If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have taken a hit lately. Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own work, circumventing peer review …

Science of psychological phenomena and their testing.

There is no crisis of replication and generalizability in psychological science, only misunderstanding or forgetting the fundamental nature of psychological phenomena and resultant implications for empirical testing. Stability–variability is the …

Science or art? How aesthetic standards grease the way through the publication bottleneck but undermine science.

The current crisis in psychological research involves issues of fraud, replication, publication bias, and false positive results. I argue that this crisis follows the failure of widely adopted solutions to psychology’s similar crisis of the 1970s. …

Scientific apophenia in strategic management research: Significance tests & mistaken inference

This article uses distributional matching and posterior predictive checks to estimate the extent of false and inflated findings in empirical research on strategic management. Based on a sample of 300 papers in top outlets for research on strategic …

Scientific reform, citation politics and the bureaucracy of oblivion

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Scientific Utopia II. Restructuring incentives and practices to promote truth over publishability.

An academic scientist’s professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore …

Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication

Existing norms for scientific communication are rooted in anachronistic practices of bygone eras making them needlessly inefficient. We outline a path that moves away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in …

Scientists’ Reputations Are Based on Getting It Right, Not Being Right

Replication is vital for increasing precision and accuracy of scientific claims. However, when replications “succeed” or “fail,” they could have reputational consequences for the claim’s originators. Surveys of United States adults (N = 4,786), …