It’s easy to be a little blinded by the specialized statistical techniques in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. As with any type…
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Bias Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses: A 5-Step Checkup
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Evidence All That Meta-Analysis Backlash!
As soon as people started getting serious about systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the 1970s, the bashing started. It’s not…
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Science Communication A Reality Check on Author Access to Open Access Publishing
Technically, the “most journals don’t charge authors” statement could well be true. Most open access journals may not charge authors…
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Science Communication Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?
There’s a sort of Godwin’s Law for discussions on open peer review. Sooner or later, someone’s going to say, “We can’t expect early…
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Black History Month Black History Month: Mathematicians’ Powerful Stories
It was a turning point. The previous year, the US Civil Rights Act had passed. On 26 January 1969 in…
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Science Communication Transparency, Recognition, & Innovation: The ASAPbio Peer Review Meeting
All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the…
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Science Communication Principles, Open Access, & Everyday Choices
It’s not enough to mean well, is it? Principles matter, but so do the effects of acting on our strongly held…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2017: A Year of Stand-Offs, Showdowns, & Funders’ Own Journals
This was the fifth year I tracked events in open access. Sifting through the mass of developments I collected along…
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Evidence Infographic vs Text: Evidence Throwdown!
A paper recently dropped a trio of randomized trials of an infographic going head-to-head with text. The reaction to the performance…
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Bias 6 Tips for Deciphering Outcomes in Health Studies
It’s way too easy to get a false impression of a study’s results. The combination of jargon and specialized measurement techniques can get…
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Science Communication Rebranding Retractions and the Honest Error Hypothesis
We have a serious problem with errors and irredeemably flawed studies: there’s a lot of them, and they keep leading…
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History Peak Gender Gap: Women at the Top of Science Agencies
This story didn’t get off to a very good start. It turns out, it’s not easy to dig out online who’s been…