“positively motivated to help all of humankind”
As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…
Scientists should be allowed to recommend their own peer reviewers
Leo Tiokhin has a post up arguing the opposite of the title of my post. His argument is that a number of studies find that reviewers suggested by authors provide…
Higher impact factor journals have lower replicability indexes
Researchers often talk about getting into the better journals. There is an assumption that better journals are those with high impact factors, and these publish better science. Of course, if…
The hierarchy of evidence: meta-analysis vs. registered studies
Anon asks: Do you have the study where they compare meta analysis to pre-registered trials Yes, but let's look at the wider issue. So you have some question. You want…
New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media
So it's finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal…
Seeds of Science: another free to publish attempt at reforming the scientific publishing process
A large number of scientists believe the scientific publishing ecosystem is quite broken, in the sense that it favors flashy improbable findings over rigorous research. This positivity and novelty bias…
The ‘Hereditarians bad people’ objection
Bo Winegard has a thread on this piece here. I didn't know about it at the time of writing. Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The…
Book review: Why Trust Science? (Naomi Oreskes)
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking…
Different researchers, same dataset and questions: what happens?
A new preprint is out on a massive many teams study. In this design, a single dataset (or database) is given to a bunch of researchers, and they are asked…
Against trust in neuroscience
Neuroscience enjoys a good public perception of scientific rigor. Unfortunately, it's undeserved. Statistically speaking, a scientific field cannot be rigorous when it is underpowered and has a high researcher degree…