Linkspam #7
Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy by Nan Estad at Boston Review:
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Linkspam #6
Read more → More from Duly Noted →It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico by José de Córdoba at the Wall Street Journal:
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Linkspam #5
Read more → More from Duly Noted →How to Survive America’s Kill List by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone - an American citizen’s fight to escape assassination by the US executive branch:
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Linkspam #4
Read more → More from Duly Noted →How to Not Die in America by Molly Osberg at Splinter News:
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Linkspam #3
Read more → More from Duly Noted →To Be, or Not To Be by Masha Gessen in the New York Review of Books:
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Linkspam #2
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Public Policy After Utopia by Will Wilkinson at the Niskanen Center:
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Linkspam #1
Read more → More from Duly Noted →The Supermanagerial Reich by Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Raphaële Chappe at the LA Review of Books:
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Readings on activist culture
Read more → More from Duly Noted →My friend Sumana Harihareswara recently posted a great collection of links on ‘call-out culture’ to MetaFilter.
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List
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Things I've accomplished recently, and future plans, offered up as justification for the lack of a "real" post:
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Over There
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Time for another list of excuses for shamefully neglecting this blog:
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Daisy-chained replications
Read more → More from Meta-science →This is a little old - I’m going through my bookmarks - but:
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The end of an era
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've been doing Iron Blogger, in one form or another, for almost two years now. That's over a hundred weeks of posts, with a few misses here and there, paid for in beer. I try to make each post substantive, meaningful to someone, even if just to me.
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Pressure to publish and the prevalence of positive results
Read more → More from Meta-science →This PLoS One study attempted to look at how pressure to publish might influence the prevalence of positive results. The author, Daniele Fanelli, made an odd choice by using ‘papers per capita by state’ as the measure of pressure to publish. The state seems way too macro a level to look at. I would expect pressure to vary strongly between schools and between departments within schools. There’s no reasoning for this given in the paper - I suspect that it was just simpler to use this measure, already provided by the NSF, then to come up with a method for looking at individual institutions.
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Solutions: Open Science Data Cloud
Read more → More from Meta-science →This article about Bionimbus, about an effort to efficiently and securely share cancer genomics data, mentions the Open Science Data Cloud. The OSDC is a platform for sharing large datasets, and although their current set of projects, including Bionimbus, are mostly genomics-focused, they seem to be open to datasets of all types.
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Fraud on the rise, especially in the United States and in high impact journals
Read more → More from Meta-science →An article in the Washington Post details an alleged case of Fraud which led to an as-yet-uncorrected Nature paper and a suicide:
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My life in links
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A round up of recent goings on:
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Obama administration enacts (qualified) open access
Read more → More from Meta-science →The Obama administration has announced that all research funded by federal agencies (with R&D budgets greater than $100 million) should be made open access within one year of publication:
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Trials with positive results published faster, more often than trials with negative results
Read more → More from Meta-science →A new PLoS one paper looked at the outcome of 1054 trials submitted to the ethics committee of a major Spanish hospital from 1997-2004. This flowchart captures the basic results:
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Most trials subject to mandatory reporting do not report within a year
Read more → More from Meta-science →An article in BMJ explores how well registered trials adhere to reporting deadlines.
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Misuses of models overstates significance
Read more → More from Meta-science →A brief comment points out a major flaw in a published study, in part by using simulations:
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Study on data compliance unearths incorrect analyses
Read more → More from Meta-science →A post at Retraction Watch summarizes the situation:
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Replicability In Psychology Research
Read more → More from Meta-science →Perspectives on Psychological Science recently came out with a special issue on replicability in psychology research and its implications for the reliability and health of the field as a whole. They cite as motivation the last two years, which have been filled with fraud, admissions of questionable research practices, a published paper in a major paper claiming evidence of ESP, reports that researchers cannot or will not share data or disclose the full extent of their analyses, and the failure to replicate several major findings in the field.
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Science Fraud faces legal threats
Read more → More from Meta-science →From Science Fraud’s post:
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Uncited research
Read more → More from Meta-science →This article raises, for me at least, the interesting question of whether the large amount of research that remains uncited in medical/scientific literature is a good thing, a bad thing, or a neutral thing. I did a little more reading, and found some other posts on the topic.
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Scientists Propose Central Database for Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the post:
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The Weirdest People In the World
Read more → More from Meta-science →This article (warning: pdf) talks in detail about how the psychology community frequently fails to account for the great diversity of cultures in our world.
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Article Level Metadata
Read more → More from Meta-science →This article is on, specifically, open access metadata, which the author rightly points out is needed to help readers actually locate and use open access articles.
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Citizen Science
Read more → More from Meta-science →This article focuses on making study results available to patients who are providing the medical data. But it touches on more general themes - on the right of patients not just to control their own data but to access the results of research into their illnesses, and to be empowered to do some of the research themselves.
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Stapel Report
Read more → More from Meta-science →The investigatory report on Diedrik Stapel, who was found to have published fraudulent research in at least 30 papers, is out. The committee’s report repeatedly highlights the role of the greater scientific community in allowing this fraud.
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Retractions stigmatize scientific fields, study finds
Read more → More from Meta-science →The study, published this week as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, used the PubMed Related Citations Algorithm (PMRA) to fish out papers that are topically similar to retracted articles but written by different authors. After a retraction, the rate at which these related papers were cited dropped by 5.7% relative to a selection of control papers that were not related to a retraction.
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Busybody
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week's post. More beer for everyone! Here's a list of things I've done between my last post and now. (Why yes, this is a pretense for skipping another week. Glad you asked.)
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Skeletons & Standards
Read more → More from Meta-science →Dorothy Bishop critiques a 2003 neuroimaging paper:
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Solutions: Alternative Forms of Peer Review
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Solutions: Crossref.org
Read more → More from Meta-science →As described in this Nature article:
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Reproducibility Project
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the article:
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Surely You're Joking... : The Oil Drop Experiment
Read more → More from Meta-science →An anecdote from Richard Feynman:
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Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research
Read more → More from Meta-science →The abstract:
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402 Citations Questioning the Indiscriminate Use of Null Hypothesis…
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The decline effect and the scientific method
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Walking Fast and Slow
Read more → More from Meta-science →Alex Tabarrok’s explanation of the controversy around a failure to replicate a famous psychology paper. The abstract of the article:
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We Must Stop The Avalanche of Low Quality Research
Read more → More from Meta-science →Via Derek Lowe. From the article:
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If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.
Read more → More from Meta-science →This is an article summarizing this Nature editorial, which is definitely worth reading as well.
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Solutions: Dryad Data Repository
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the website:
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Journal Disavows Study Touted By Abortion Foes
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How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the report’s summary: