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More on RFK from the reporter who outed fraudster Andrew Wakefield:

Having dealt with a few actual fraudsters in academia myself I can confirm that they're not playing 3D chess. Fraudsters do only 3 things: deny, obfuscate and attack.

If the CEO shooter was an academic he could just blame his RAs and they'd have to let him off.

Ridiculous to imply that juries made up of people with no subject matter expertise at all are best-suited to decide debates between scientists. I could see how a lawyer would like to believe that when it makes them rich but it's pretty illogical.

Pulling back the curtain on Rogue RA. All the PIs with fake data and plagiarism in their articles can now breathe a huge sigh of relief!

Lovely article by Dorothy Bishop from 1990 (!) discussing Type 1 error inflation due to p-hacking (simulating a 40% Type 1 error rate based on realistic flexibility), bad measurement, bad theory, and proposing prespecifying tests and replications as solutions. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Aaron Charlton Our writing task had a negative correlation (r=-0.30) with memorizing details in a complex image. No idea why. I think that's the most negative correlation. Note that the real correlation is probably less (closer to 0) since selecting for the most negative creates a reversion to

Why aren't articles accepted at marketing journals? I've reviewed 300 papers and noticed four problems that most frequently lead to a submission being rejected. I write about what they are and how to fix them here: bandoftownies.com/blog/2025/1/16…

Alison Wood Brooks has a bestselling new book I think it’s vitally important that we communicate with the public about the underlying scientific credentials of popular science writing, and I would love to hear any thoughts people might about this book

Experimental Philosophy B School academics are almost universally fawning over her work. Includes people like Teresa Amabile who was on the committee that investigated Gino.

Psych. Science just published a paper showing that the "warm glow" of donations can reduce depressive symptoms (d = [0.19, 0.46]). Most impressively, "micro" donations (one Chinese cent, or $0.0014) appear sufficient to trigger these large effects. Big if true? Let's dive in.

Completely nonsensical politicization of scientistics identifying and correcting problems in science. - Gino's research was not "promoting progressive ideas" - The problems were not found by "bloggers," but by leading researchers/faculty in the same scientific discipline.

This is the dilemma scientists face: we must correct flawed science and our attempts to do so will be politicized by people who are anti-science. The only solution I see is to continuously catch problems sooner & correct them more quickly so that we don't have big scandals.

Regarding the new ACIP members announced: - none of them are appropriate choices - nearly all of them lack the requisite expertise to serve on ACIP - of those that do have relevant expertise, there is significant COI ± violation ACIP charter norms in their membership