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Why the science spin snowball can’t stop
Guardian axed science blog, spreads sciencey rumors instead
Theoretical physicist: Recent claim about big quantum mechanics find is “silly”
Why do journalists “believe evolution” when the public doesn’t?
At Forbes: Four reasons people “fear science”
Science media: Insects can reason logically! Researchers: We never said that…
Is science “broken” or has it just accumulated a lot of baggage?
The National Academies of Science is wading into the longstanding mess over the validity of research findings. It doesn’t, of course, agree that there is a “crisis.” That said, the report also notes that the American public’s confidence in science hasn’t wavered at all in recent years, despite major news articles discussing the “crisis” in psychology and elsewhere. And it found that even scientists who have criticized the current state of things aren’t completely on-board with calling science broken. “How extensive is the lack of reproducibility in research results in science and engineering in general? The easy answer is that we don’t know,” Brain Nosek, co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science, told the report committee during a Read More ›