Monthly Archives: May 2011

The nature of science in 2051

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Right now scientific questions are chosen for study in a largely autocratic way. Typically grants for research on particular questions come from federal funding agencies, and scientists competitively apply with the money going to the chosen researcher via a peer … Continue reading →

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Regulatory steps toward open science and reproducibility: we need a science cloud

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

This past January Obama signed the America COMPETES Re-authorization Act. It contains two interesting sections that advance the notions of open data and the federal role in supporting online access to scientific archives: 103 and 104, which read in part: … Continue reading →

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Generalize clinicaltrials.gov and register research hypotheses before analysis

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Stanley Young is Director of Bioinformatics at the National Institute for Statistical Sciences, and gave a talk in 2009 on problems in modern scientific research. For example: 1 in 20 NIH-funded studies actually replicates; closed data and opacity; model selection … Continue reading →

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