Why is John Ioannidis such a Bad-Ass?
“Overall, not only are most research findings false, but, furthermore, most of the true findings are not useful.”
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Research Integrity
Open Science and the Certainty of Bias
… the idea of the scientist as a dispassionate and humble servant of their discipline is something that needs to be challenged.
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Cargo Cult Science
I have quite vivid memories of sitting in front of the (black and white) television as a child, watching documentaries about the cargo cults of the Pacific islands. They have largely faded away and I suspect that many of our students and younger researchers have never heard of them, but cargo cults were a big
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Fraudulent authorship
The metrification of research assessment, one symptom of the corporatization of universities and research institutions, is especially driven by the perceived need of those who don’t really understand research to administer and oversee those who do. As a consequence, we see the ascent of metrics which are as easy to misinterpret as they are to
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