Stupidity in this context is the kind we should be sort of proud of in science. The real, dangerous stupidity is the one at the center of the growing publication crisis: everything works, in big journals we come up with mechanisms on bandwagon to satisfy reviewers, basically we

What are most pernicious fallacies in biomedical research? Here is my top 3 in no particular order of importance. 1. Argument from authority 2. Sunken cost fallacy. 3. Bandwagon fallacy (perhaps a good recent example was how many folks became Covid experts overnight and had

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Why we don't do what we're told | Psychologist Paul Bloom youtube.com/shorts/ZPTHO3B… via YouTube Reactance theory

Mircea Ivan I think most people don’t even know what a primary source is anymore, unfortunately.

Nobelists advertise for russian papermill? – For Better Science. Deeply troubling, especially when you read the emails exchanges and watch the videos. Hat tip to Leonid! forbetterscience.com/2024/09/09/nob…

When biotech relies on shaky preclinical studies… Another episode in the Alzheimer’s debacle. Academics made bazillion of dollars, more and more papers got exposed as fraudulent. Who lost? Our friends and relatives afflicted by this terrible scourge. Decades later we are still

Beyond words.

Three Types of Nuanced Thinking – Spencer Greenberg spencergreenberg.com/2020/06/three-…

I remember rooting for the young lion, got quite depressed when he fell behind 5-0 (if I recall correctly, AK needed just one more win). But what happened next was truly incredible…

Very interesting article on my fellow sleuths. Brief mention "Likewise, Purdue University biologist David Sanders went public with allegations of potential image manipulation in some articles by famed cancer researcher Carlo Croce." undark.org/2024/09/11/the… #Alzheimers

Fantastic news, and again the scientific sleuths win.

Stealth corrections are a completely unacceptable and their very existence in such number tell a dark story about academic publishing.

Read this carefully.

Why we don't do what we're told | Psychologist Paul Bloom youtube.com/shorts/ZPTHO3B… via YouTube The 2edge sword of reactance.

Ancient Persian decision-making | Rory Sutherland #ancienthistory #persi... youtube.com/shorts/MoXOMPe… via YouTube

Why hares are incredible | Rory Sutherland youtube.com/shorts/9JmtoXK… via YouTube Occasional advantages of random behavior

There must be an official way for the Nobel Committee to recognize the key junior contributors (first authors of the key papers). There must be ways to revamp the 120yo system that was put in place in a time when science was done very differently. Think about the soccer stats,

The Euthanasia Coaster is a conceptual design for a steel roller coaster intended solely as a means of euthanasia. This idea was devised in 2010 and realized as a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a Lithuanian artist pursuing a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London.

PubPeer - Discovery, characterization, and clinical development of the... Glad to see that Svetlana Mojsov got recognized by the Lasker Foundation. I hope ⁦The Nobel Prize⁩ pays more attention to the young folks who made big discoveries possible. pubpeer.com/publications/E…