Flutterby™! : April 1st

Enough with the replication police:

Can you imagine what might happen if any published result could be questioned—by anybody? You’d have serious psychology research being grilled by statisticians, and biology research being called into question by . . . political scientists?

Are scientists really ready for ‘retraction offsets’ to advance ‘aggregate reproducibility’?

Given recent evidence of the irreproducibility of a surprising number of published scientific findings, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) sought ideas for “leveraging its role as a significant funder of scientific research to most effectively address the problem”, and announced funding for projects to “reset the self-corrective process of scientific inquiry”. (first noted in this post.)