The episode showed Brown that well - crafted arguments
about flawed research are hard for editors to ignore.
Not exact matches
of these groups have the same underlying
flaw — they don't want to have to
research the material and think
about
And how Steingrabber and others lied
about their connections to the anti-fracking industry to «peer review»
flawed research.
In the cerebral but engaging Myth, he deconstructs two decades of
research and argues that
flawed early studies led to years of simplistic assumptions
about how these cells function.
The discovery of the «exercise hormone» irisin three years ago and more than 170 related papers
about it since have been called into question by recent
research showing they were based on
flawed testing kits.
About three years ago they and another
research team working independently at Princeton found a serious
flaw in what has been the most widely accepted theory of galactic magnetic fields — a theory that with slight variations has also been used to explain the magnetic fields of individual stars such as the sun.
How can we take seriously the daily hand - wringing
about fraud, non-replication, and biased statistics when in so blatant a case of data manipulation (where
flawed predictors were the basis for surgery and chemotherapy regimens) we read: «Respondent neither admits nor denies ORI's findings of
research misconduct»?
Regarding Macchiarini's
research, there were
flaws in the documentation
about what had actually been done.
As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned
about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially
flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid
research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.
In 2014 he was the lead author on a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
about the systemic
flaws in biomedical
research, which, I feel, serves as a commentary
about biology writ large.
College student Ankur Singh spent the spring semester of his freshman year
researching the
flaws in the American education system from a student perspective; the result of these efforts is Listen, a film
about public education in the United States by students, for students.
For example, Wilson and Korn did a literature review (an analysis of what the
research says
about a specific topic) and discussed the many
flaws in much of the
research on attention span during lectures.
A recent article by John McIntosh in the TES expresses concern
about schools re-vamping assessment systems under a
flawed Levels system... The article found by Incyte Director Jan Lomas — is great in identifying the pupil perspective (backed by significant
research) on what they need in terms of feedback which enables them to learn well and make good progress...
The normal concerns
about making huge decisions based on tainted /
flawed / untrustworthy / suspect
research?
While I have read of accounts by skeptical scientists of how they are selectively funneled out of the funding process, the level of coordination it would take to virtually eliminate any funding for good
research scientists who might reach findings that diverge with what we are calling «consensus» here seems far too complicated logistically to be doable — particularly when you consider those very same scientists are frequently characterized by the the folks who make such claims
about inequities in
research funding as being so incompetent they are unable to see «obvious»
flaws in their scientific reasoning.
[DC: The «peer review corruption» I am most concerned
about is that which allows publication of deeply
flawed papers from the likes of lobby group allies like researchers Soon and Baliunas (Climate
Research, back in 2003) or McLean et al (GRL, last year).]
Hence, the authors of the recent GRL paper did nice work sorting out
flaws in earlier
research, but their press release claim
about the IPCC quote isn't substantiated for that reason alone — satellite data might be entirely missing changes in species composition.
The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published
research, is when climate change scientists who know
about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting
about their
flawed, misleading
research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their
flawed and misleading
research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.
Research on positive illusions shows that it's helpful to see romantic partners in a positive light — to appreciate their positive qualities rather than ruminating
about their
flaws.