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A decade ago, John P.A. Ioannidis published a provocative and much-discussed paper arguing that most published research findings are false. It’s starting to look like he was right. A decade ago, John ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last August, I wrote about a large initiative called the Reproducibility Project, led by Brian Nosek from the University of ...

Scientists and drug developers are always looking for new ways to hit cancer where it hurts. Recently, they’ve been focusing on metabolic pathways—how cancer cells hijack cells to support their own ...

The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was a crowdsourced collaboration of 270 contributing authors to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies. This project was led ...

Recent years have seen perceptions of a “reproducibility crisis” grow in various disciplines. Scientists see poor levels of research reproducibility as a severe threat to scientific self-correction, ...

Social science, including behavioral economics, has recently come under fire as failing to generate studies with reproducible results. The Reproducibility Project made waves in August of 2015 when it ...