Friday, 20 July 2018

Standing on the shoulders of giants, or slithering around on jellyfish: Why reviews need to be systematic

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing George Davey Smith (aka @mendel_random) talk. In the course of a wide-ranging lecture he recounted h...
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Thursday, 12 July 2018

One big study or two small studies? Insights from simulations

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At a recent conference, someone posed a question that had been intriguing me for a while: suppose you have limited resources, with the poten...
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Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Preprint publication as karaoke

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 Doing research, analysing the results, and writing it up is a prolonged and difficult process. Submitting the paper to a journal is an a...
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Saturday, 9 June 2018

Developmental language disorder: the need for a clinically relevant definition

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There's been debate over the new terminology for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) at a meeting (SRCLD) in the USA. I've not got...
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Sunday, 27 May 2018

Sowing seeds of doubt: how Gilbert et al’s critique of the reproducibility project has played out

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In Merchants of Doubt , Eric Conway and Naomi Oreskes describe how raising doubt can be used as an effective wea...
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Sunday, 13 May 2018

How to survive on Twitter – a simple rule to reduce stress

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In recent weeks, I’ve seen tweets from a handful of people I follow saying they are thinking of giving up Twitter because it has become...
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Wednesday, 9 May 2018

My response to the EPA's 'Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science'

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Incredible things have happened at the US Environmental Protection Agency since Donald Trump was elected. The agency is responsible for crea...
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