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"Last week, maybe the most prominent blogger to have touched the replication crisis, and author of one of its classics, Scott Alexander, wrote a piece that surprised some of his audience..." open.substack.com/pub/redteamo...
Psychology is not mostly fine
Astral Codex endorses justice delayed on the replication crisis
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A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/the-missin...
The missing link
A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science
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Scientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix? #ResearchIntegrity #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/scient...
Scientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix?
The £2 million recently awarded to a whistleblower by a US court is a rare reward for the volunteers who trawl the scientific literature for error and fraud. Yet their numbers continue to grow. So wha...
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Koroshetz was adamant about improving science but his project to get schools to teach rigor has had mixed results. www.redteamofscience.com/p/nih-encour... www.science.org/content/arti...
Firing of neuroscience institute chief adds to NIH’s leadership vacuum
Trump administration declines to renew appointment of Walter Koroshetz, against NIH director’s wishes
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Misconduct sleuth wins $2.63 million from major cancer institute in $15 million settlement | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Misconduct sleuth wins $2.63 million from major cancer institute in $15 million settlement
Data detectives see validation in deal with U.S. government that penalizes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for misrepresenting data in NIH grant applications
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Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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At least @physicsworld.bsky.social admits to using nonsense from the literature. YouTube "warriors for science" don't need to. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/one-of-the...
One of the most dangerous ideas in science was a misunderstanding
It's only getting more popular
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In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis
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Congratulations to @simine.com for winning the Einstein Foundation Individual Award! 🎉 A well-deserved recognition for her seminal efforts to improve scientific rigor, which includes instituting detailed checks for errors and computational reproducibility at Psychological Science.
New data: Most psychologists believe crisis persists despite significant progress. Yet evidence suggests there's still an advantage to bending the rules. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/psychologi...
Psychologists think there's a crisis in psychology
Results from a new poll
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Among the references: Bik: The dark side of post-publication peer review. Ioannidis: A new era of hyper-skepticism in science. A former COPE council member apparently thought these were 1. not suspicious and 2. didn't click the links.
Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 11mo agoA paper critiquing post-publication peer review has numerous made-up references, including a @nature.com article falsely attributed to our Ivan Oransky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An outsider opened a box and broke the intentionality taboo in metascience. Revision is long overdue. www.redteamofscience.com/p/cognitive-...
Cognitive dissonance and a truly impossible assumption
The many unopened boxes of psychology
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"The project also stands out for its innovative approach, which is pioneering in cosmology. RedH0T introduces the red-teaming method, inspired by cybersecurity."
Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona @icc-ub.bsky.social · 12mo ago🔵The RedH0T project, destined to resolve the Hubble tension and determine the expansion rate of the universe, has received an #ERC Synergy Grant for over 12M€! 🤝Co-led by #ICCUB's scientific director Licia Verde and Fred Courbin (ICREA-ICCUB-@ieec.cat) 🏆Congratulations!👏 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qKap3u
Counting hypotheses changed GWAS. Why not physics? The role of... insults. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-de...
Physics defends itself
There's not as much math as you'd expect
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New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies
I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...
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I think we're arguing about the reputation of physics. On that, the small amount of string theory is a good argument.
Claus Wilke@clauswilke.com · last yr.Impressive how this article cites a who-is-who among anti-science grifters. For anybody who needs a dose of reality, this video is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJb...
More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪
1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds
Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts
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Physics is the bedrock of science and may be the site of its worst case of base rate neglect. www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-ha...
Physics has all the ingredients for scientific crisis
It turns out all you need is money and a googol of hypotheses to write up
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Kazimier Smith, Yucheng Lu, Qiaochu Fan: From Funding to Findings (FIND): An Open Database of NSF Awards and Research Outputs https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10336 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10336 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.10336
Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."
Is Science Retracting Enough Papers?
As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels.
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If science had star ratings like Goodreads, what paper in your field would be a 5/5 - and why?
This is how far scientific critique lags behind science. We're just learning subtraction. www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...
Protecting the integrity of university rankings
Addressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty
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I’m deeply honored to have been named as the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It recognizes my work on scientific integrity for Science Magazine over the last five years. 1/7 tinyurl.com/zz54fzyr
Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize - CASW
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There more I think about this, the more disturbing it becomes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...
I can't believe this really happened.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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The way to increase trust in science is to stop making rules to benefit scientists. Making self-serving rules is so universal in science that the author calls transparency a paradox because it doesn't always help your reputation.
ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · last yr.Lying increases trust in science doi.org/10.1007/s111... “a better way forward (and the real solution to the transparency paradox) would be to resolve the problem of the public overidealizing science through science education and communication to eliminate the naïve view of science as infallible.”
Tylenol and autism. Why normal papers make history:
