Monday, 27 October 2025

Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies

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  I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific ri...
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Monday, 20 October 2025

A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program

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A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
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Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Gold standard science isn't gold standard if it's applied selectively. Part 2: Research on causes of autism

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In my previous blogpost , I discussed why many scientists can't take seriously the lofty ideals expressed in Trump's plans for Gold ...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Gold standard science isn't gold standard if it's applied selectively. Part 1: Firearms injuries

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In May, the White House produced a report called " Restoring Gold Standard Science ", which was followed by an NIH plan to impleme...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them

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Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...
Monday, 21 July 2025

Trouble at t' (review) mill: How MDPI lets down authors

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 I guess many readers will have had peer reviews where the reviewer doesn't appear to have understood, or even properly read, the paper ...
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Sunday, 16 March 2025

Book Review: Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research

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by Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press, 2025  This is a rollicking good read, written in an informal style, and enlivened by cartoons, wh...
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Saturday, 22 February 2025

IEEE Has a Pseudoscience Problem

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Guest post by Solal Pirelli The IEEE, full name Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is one of the main scientific publisher...
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Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society

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  Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...
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Saturday, 18 January 2025

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI

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  Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in pu...
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