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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Sep 25, 2019

“White Coat Waste Takes Aim at Animal Research — From the Right”

“In the past 12 months, White Coat Waste has focused particular attention on research conducted under the auspices of the Department of Veterans Affairs, shuttering one project in California, triggering internal…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

May 11, 2019

“Meet the ‘data thugs’ out to expose shoddy and questionable research”

“Soon, Brown and Heathers were asking Guéguen and the French Psychological Society about the numbers. The pair says Guéguen failed to adequately address their questions, and the society agreed that their…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Apr 23, 2019

“Robust research needs many lines of evidence”

“We believe that an essential protection against flawed ideas is triangulation3. This is the strategic use of multiple approaches to address one question. Each approach has its own unrelated assumptions, strengths and weaknesses. Results that agree…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Jan 10, 2019

“Gun research could save lives, but America won’t fund it”

“In order to prevent gun injuries and deaths, we need accurate information about how they occur and why. While police reports and FBI data can provide some detail, they don’t include the thousands of cases that go unreported each…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Sep 12, 2018

“The federal government has no idea how to grow marijuana. These photos prove it.”

“Due to federal prohibition and regulations, all of the marijuana used for US research is provided by one facility at the University of Mississippi through the National Institute on Drug…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

May 31, 2018

“Her Husband Was Dying From A Superbug. She Turned To Sewer Viruses Collected By The Navy.”

“mainstream scientists have long dismissed phage therapy as a fringe idea pushed by eccentrics who enjoy fishing in sewage (where many phages live). But over the past 15…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

May 7, 2018

“With this new system, scientists never have to write a grant application again”

“two researchers are proposing a radically different system that would do away with applications and reviews; instead scientists would just give each other money. “Self-organized fund…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 1, 2018

“Gaming the system, scientific ‘cartels’ band together to cite each others’ work”

“For authors, the payoff is clear: The more citations your articles generate, the more influential they appear. And journals have similar incentives: Encourage authors to cite papers that…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 31, 2017

“When are people gonna realize their studies are dead on arrival?”

“my message is that this noisy, N = 41, between-person study never had a chance. The researchers presumably thought they were doing solid science, but actually they’re trying to use a bathroom scale to weigh a…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Dec 13, 2017

“San people of Africa draft code of ethics for researchers”

“The code, published here on 3 March, asks researchers to treat the San respectfully and refrain from publishing information that could be viewed as insulting. Because such sensitivities may not be clear to researchers, the…