Abel Brodeur is an associate professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and is the chair at the Institute for Replication. Anna Dreber is a professor of economics at the Stockholm ...

Errors can be prevented from reoccurring by requiring publication of study data (without identifying details) and via replication and reevaluation studies In 1998, an author published a well-known ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It is the latter – the data mining of commercially available and open ...

On Monday, the journal Nature released a report from Nanjing University researchers that had attempted to replicate an earlier paper that described a compound that superconducted at room temperature ...

Is psychology facing a ‘replication crisis’? Last year, a crowdsourced effort that was able to validate fewer than half of 98 published findings 1 rang alarm bells about the reliability of psychology ...