Taking the brakes off science

January 10, 2017

A team of experts on how science works has issued a set of policies that could help accelerate science. Their article appears in the brand new scientific journal Nature Human Behavior. Anyone who has been waiting decades for President Nixon’s 1970s-era War on Cancer to “cure cancer” appreciates that science sometimes seems to proceed at a snail’s pace. …Read More

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Research transparency depends on sharing computational tools, says John Ioannidis

December 15, 2016

A team of scientists including Stanford’s John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used in all areas of research. The group’s summary of those principles, known as the Reproducibility Enhancement Principles, was published recently in a paper in Science. The effort is an attempt …Read More

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