Cui bono and science
There's a new bombshell paper out finding some very obvious findings: Zhang, F. J. (2023). Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11.…
Economics research is mostly untrustworthy because economists cheat so much with the statistics
I recently posted a book review of Garett Jones' 10% less Democracy. My main beef with the book is that it relies on lots of studies with dubious p values,…
Social status bias in science: a dissident perspective
Let me tell you a story about science. (Deep breath) Once upon a time there was no peer review in science. Instead, the editor made his own comments and edits,…
Neil deGrasse Tyson, not much of an astrophysicist
Due to popular demand, we do another one of these. The pattern is that of the Kardashian index. The idea of that is that often people from some group who…
“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…