Climate science might become the most important casualty of the replication crisis

The replication crisis in science has just begun. It will be big. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: After a decade of slow growth beneath public view,…

A Nature editorial on the state of 'robusted' science reproducibility

Excerpts from Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility C. Glenn Begley, Alastair M. Buchan & Ulrich Dirnagl Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot…

Shades of Lewandowsky and Cook: When psychological science isn't so sciency

Sound familiar? A study revealing a stunning lack of reproducibility in psychological science triggers another instance of reluctance to share data with any but friends, and an “adjustment” of  data…

'Robust' analysis isn't what it is cracked up to be: Top 10 ways to save science from its statistical self

In the wake of what Willis recently pointed out from Nassim Taleb, about how “In fact errors are so convex that the contribution of a single additional variable could increase…

Climate Science take note: New gold standard established for open and reproducible research

From the University of Cambridge: A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of…

AAAS on reproducibility – 'a cornerstone of science'

Reproducibility — the ability to redo an experiment and get the same results — is a cornerstone of science, but it has been the subject of some troubling news lately.…