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the amazing, gyrating theory of everything
Maybe some people just let the pressures of our busy, post-industrial lives get to them and snap, producing a few fevered works of the imagination during a small nervous breakdown in the process. Or...
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for the good of science, publish your code?
Photo by Gustas Brazaitis Today, we’re drowning in data. Scientists can collect so many facts and figures, it’s humanly impossible to sit down, roll up one’s sleeves, and sort it out. Meanwhile,...
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why retractions aren’t really a bad thing
Carl Zimmer has a feature on the recent rise of paper retractions in the NYT, citing it as a symptom of what he calls a dysfunctional climate in the scientific world. Much of the dysfunction in...
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when bad science, mass media, and luddism mix
There’s a good reason why politics and science don’t, and shouldn’t, mix. It’s one thing to use a number of thorough studies to inform policy. But trying to make law with cherry-picked studies is...
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when doing agenda science, threaten to sue your critics
Even if those critics have not yet materialized. That was the sentiment of the cherry-picked and widely panned anti-GMO study lead by an activist researcher trying to get European agencies to crack...
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anatomy of a politically painful fraud
Last year, a study conducted by poly sci grad student Michael LaCour showed that just a simple conversation with a canvasser who talked to people about marriage equality and then identified as gay,...
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science is broken, long live science
Illustration from Far Cry 3 About a month ago, health and science journalist Christie Aschwanden took on the tough job of explaining why, despite a recent rash of peer review scandals, science isn’t...
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hell hath no fury like a scientist scorned by bad peer review…
While my play-along-at-home AI project hit a little snag as I’m still experimenting with using the newest cross-platform version of a framework which might not be ready for prime time just yet, why...
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much ado about reproducing social science experiments
Social science gets a bad rap because not only does it sometimes make us confront some very ugly truths about human nature, its studies can be very difficult to reproduce, so much that the undertaking...
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why we have to abandon the popular “lone genius” narrative of science
If you were to listen to far too many authors and watch too much TV, you’d think that scientists since Newton’s times sat around twiddling their thumbs, satisfied that they solved the mysteries of the...
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