There’s no excuse for shoddy practice of allowing researchers to change outcomes and goals without saying so, says Ben Goldacre. Science is in flux. The basics of a rigorous scientific method were…
Month: July 2021
The next steps on Zika
The World Health Organization declared this week that clusters of birth defects suspected of being linked to the Zika virus epidemic in the US constituted a “public health emergency of international concern”….
Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors
We are a group of researchers working on obesity, nutrition and energy. In the summer of 2014, One of Us (DBA) read a research paper in a well-known journal estimating how a…