Written by Weishi MengJuly 9, 2017October 12, 2017

Reproducibility crisis, sure, but the real crisis is who handles the crisis

The New York Times wants to make us aware there is a reproducibility crisis in science. This is hardly news at all. There surely is a problem and has been there ever since science began to be run like a business, with its system of gratification and punishment, with the explosion in the number of […]

Written by Weishi MengOctober 9, 2015October 11, 2015

Paolo Macchiarini portrayed by Retraction Watch: defamed, probably, vindicated? Never!

As the peer review system appears to be failing and bogus research keeps surfacing, post publication peer review (PPPR) is becoming a necessity. The problem is who conducts PPPR (*). Certainly an indiscriminate blog run by nonscientists nudging journals into reaction, where anyone can voice their opinion or make misconduct allegations is not the way […]

Ariel Fernandez – Science Transparency – COVID 19 Cover-up

Restoring a healthy NIH research environment for scientific pursuit.

Category: Meta-Research

Reproducibility crisis, sure, but the real crisis is who handles the crisis

Paolo Macchiarini portrayed by Retraction Watch: defamed, probably, vindicated? Never!