The Far-Reaching Ripple Effects of a Discredited Cancer Study
A flawed study attracted grants, investments and other researchers who based new work on the faulty findings.
The man who tried to fake an element
This 2022 documentary follows the life of Victor Ninov, who tried to fake an element during the race to create the heavy elements of the periodic table.
So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Researchers have tried a bunch of strategies to get more negative results into the literature. Nature asks whether they are working.
The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing.
Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents
Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated.
- Broken Science
- Applications In Various Fields
- Bayes Theorem
- Consider Your Model, Parameter Estimation
- Extended Logic And Plausible Reasoning
- Featured Content
- History of Modern Science
- Inference
- Irrationalism
- Maximum Entropy Principle
- Original Content
- P Values And Hypothesis Testing
- Physics
- Postmodernism
- Probability Theory
- Problems with Peer Review
- Speaking Series
- Video
Sunday Discussion, Part 3: Epistemology Camp
The final part of Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp. The day was a loosely structured open discussion, covering probability, quantum theory, cosmology, journal publication and more.
We have a judgment
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Zoë Harcombe PhD received a judgement in their favor yesterday in a London court. Kendrick and Harbombe had filed a libel suit against Associated Newspapers and a journalist who published defamatory articles about them due to their position on the effectiveness of statins.
The Supreme Court rules for Biden administration in a social media dispute with conservative states
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.
Scientific fraud: The case of the Spanish university rector should prompt change to ranking system
The founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics.
- Broken Science
- Applications In Various Fields
- Bayes Theorem
- Consider Your Model, Parameter Estimation
- Extended Logic And Plausible Reasoning
- Featured Content
- History of Modern Science
- Inference
- Irrationalism
- Maximum Entropy Principle
- Original Content
- P Values And Hypothesis Testing
- Physics
- Postmodernism
- Probability Theory
- Speaking Series
- Video
Sunday Discussion, Part 2: Epistemology Camp
Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion, covering probability, quantum theory, cosmology, and more.
