From Walter Stewart to Uri Simonsohn
Over on G+, Ole Rogeberg asks what ever happened to Walter Stewart? Stewart was a biologist employed by NIH in the 80s and 90s who became involved in rooting out questionable research practices....
View ArticleReplication, period. (A guest post by David Funder)
The following is a guest post by David Funder. David shares some of his thoughts about the best way forward through social psychology’s recent controversies over fraud and corner-cutting. David is a...
View ArticleA Pottery Barn rule for scientific journals
Proposed: Once a journal has published a study, it becomes responsible for publishing direct replications of that study. Publication is subject to editorial review of technical merit but is not...
View ArticleAn eye-popping ethnography of three infant cognition labs
I don’t know how else to put it. David Peterson, a sociologist, recently published an ethnographic study of 3 infant cognition labs. Titled “The Baby Factory: Difficult Research Objects, Disciplinary...
View ArticleReading “The Baby Factory” in context
Yesterday I put up a post about David Peterson’s ethnography The Baby Factory, an ethnography of 3 baby labs that discusses Peterson’s experience as a participant observer. My post was mostly excerpts,...
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