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Replication. Not.
Top science writer George Johnson has started a new column in the New York Times called Raw Data, and Knight Science Journalism Tracker Faye Flam took his first post apart. Johnson’s topic was raw data...
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[UPDATED] Fraud in Science: the retracted study on attitudes toward gay marriage
[Update added comments from Retraction Watch’s Adam Marcus and comment on Tara Haelle’s post at the health journalism blog Covering Health.] There’s an interesting meta-question growing out of the flap...
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More fallout from the retracted gay marriage paper; social sciences under fire
For the third time here at On Science Blogs, fallout from the fraudulent Science paper about the ease of changing opposition to gay marriage. The commentary now has moved on from that particular paper...
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Science explains Donald J. Trump; astronaut Scott Kelly’s space time is a...
IS POLITICAL SCIENCE REALLY A SCIENCE? The social sciences, especially psychology, have been routinely disparaged in this space, the reasons being chiefly lack of rigor and sloppy methodology. (There...
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Transgender attitudes changed by conversation! Social science vindicated!
A WIN FOR SCIENCE AND REASONED DISCOURSE Wouldn’t it be nice to know that prejudice can be overcome by reasoned discourse? Well, great news! Researchers have just showed that prejudice can apparently...
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