Keeping zombie ideas about personality and health awalkin’: A teaching example
Reverse engineer my criticisms of this article and you will discover a strategy to turn your own null findings into a publishable paper. Here’s a modest little study with null findings, at least before...
View ArticlePay $1000 to criticize a bad ‘blood test for depression’ article?
No way, call for retraction. Would you pay $1,000 for the right to criticize bad science in the journal in which it originally appeared? That is what it costs to participate in postpublication peer...
View ArticleSordid tale of a study of cognitive behavioral therapy for schizophrenia gone...
What motivates someone to publish that paper without checking it? Laziness? Naivety? Greed? Now that’s one to ponder. – Neuroskeptic, Science needs vigilantes. We need to Make the world safe for...
View ArticleBusting foes of post-publication peer review of a psychotherapy study
As described in the last issue of Mind the Brain, peaceful post-publication peer reviewers (PPPRs) were ambushed by an author and an editor. They used the usual home team advantages that journals have...
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