Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Writers constantly tell us about mavericks whose genius overturned the status quo. Their stories aren’t just wrong, they’re dangerous.
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A project to replicate studies it found problematic is running into its own replication problems and not following experimental designs.
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Peer review and editorial input at PLOS ONE are in trouble and scientists are very, very upset.
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Over-quantification and commodification of research is encouraging bad behavior and slowing down scientists.
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Michael LaCour's groundbreaking study on how just talking to an LGBT person could change homophobic attitudes was a fraud. But why did it take so longer to uncover it and what does it mean for other researchers?
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The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.
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Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.
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Don't worry about retractions or bad papers being discovered by scientists trying to build on and replicate each other's work. That's exactly how science advances.
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Publishing code used in scientific studies sounds like a good idea, but its implementation and consequences need a lot more thought first...
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A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?