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The Paperwork Reduction Act Is Terrible, and We Should Eliminate or Reform It
The Paperwork Reduction Act sounds boring and tedious, but it’s actually quite fascinating: it shows how an effort to improve government can ironically…
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When Does Science Self-Correct? Lessons from a Replication Crisis in Early 20th Century Chemistry
Guest post by Paul von Hippel (Univ. of Texas)
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It's a DARPA-filled Week
A big week if you’re into DARPA, or rather, ARPAs of all kinds. First, Issues in Science and Technology published several major pieces on the ARPA model…
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Thoughts from David Glanzman (UCLA) on high-risk research
David Glanzman is Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology and Professor, Neurobiology, at UCLA. Glanzman has done extensive work with the Aplysia…
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Stuart Buck
October 2023
Comments on Draft NIH Scientific Integrity Policy
The NIH recently asked for public comments on a draft Scientific Integrity Policy (You can still submit comments here by Nov. 9.) The Good Science…
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Stuart Buck
Comments on NIH Reform for Sen. Cassidy
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a prominent member of the committee that regulates NIH, recently issued a long and thoughtful request for ideas as to…
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Reflections on the Senate Hearing on the NIH Director Nomination
Earlier today, the Senate HELP Committee at long last held a hearing on the nomination of Monica Bertagnolli to be the new NIH Director (C-SPAN here…
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Stuart Buck
Reupping an Article on Katalin Kariko
Given today’s Nobel announcement, it seems worth reupping an article I published in STAT last year. It’s also worth reupping a newsletter piece urging…
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September 2023
Journals That Ban Replications--Are They Serious Scholarly Outlets At All?
My friend Vinay Prasad let me publish this as a guest piece in his newsletter today. Reprinting it here: **** We are living in a time of growing…
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Comments to the White House on Federal Data
A recent email went out: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), on behalf of the Federal agencies and departments participating on the National…
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Stuart Buck
A New Mission Statement for NIH--Misguided Semantic Changes?
The NIH recently released a Request for Information on “Updating the NIH Mission Statement” that I find puzzling. It proposes to change the official NIH…
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August 2023
Master Protocols: A Tool for Increasing the Reliability of Behavioral Evidence
A guest post
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