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 ...

If there's a central tenet that unites all of the sciences, it's probably that scientists should approach discovery without bias and with a healthy dose of skepticism. The idea is that the best way to ...

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 ...

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. Ugly facts kill beautiful theories, to paraphrase the 19 th-century biologist Thomas Huxley. But, as we learned recently, policies at the top scientific ...