From Nature News: Japanese scientist resigns as ‘STAP’ stem-cell method fails It sounded too good to be true… and it was. Reproducibility is key. You can read the whole story here. Continue reading
Tag Archives: reproducibility
Cracked Science Video 4: Irreproducible
We often hear the science corrects itself in the long run, but how efficient is this mechanism? Jonathan Jarry reports that reproducibility in the scientific literature is not always a given. (Des sous-titres en français seront bientôt disponibles!) Just so you are not too demoralized, the landscape may be changing: http://www.nature.com/news/journals-u… http://www.nature.com/news/metascienc… Continue reading
The Transparent Garbage Bag of Science or How Shaming Could Enact Change
I was going to write about how World-War-II-era soldiers that went missing in action can be identified today using DNA technology. Since I am waiting on a bit of fact checking to come through, and since an interesting article landed in my mailbox today, I thought I’d take the opportunity to fill the void with … Continue reading
