Tag: data integrity

A Glimpse into a Scientist's Mind Through Chalk Drawings

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Date
August 15, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, ambition, American Council for Science and Health, Chuck Dinerstein, COVID-19, credit, CRISPR, data integrity, dishonesty, honesty, incentives, Liam Kofi Bright, London School of Economics, peer review, perverse incentives, prestige, recognition, replication, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, science, scientific integrity, scientists, trust, truth, watchdogs, wealth}

Why Scientists Lie

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August 15, 2025

Bioethics, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness

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One thing that will really help the discussion, going forward, is to quit blaming the public for not trusting science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Science Education
Tagged
, academic misconduct, archeology, Arxiv.org, biological origins, cryptography, data falsification, data integrity, data science, Design Inference, Forensics, information, intelligent design, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Nature (journal), physicists, Piltdown Man, plagiarism, probabilities, probability, randomness, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, specification, Stanford University, superconductivity, Theo Baker, University of Rochester, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

_{William A. Dembski
April 17, 2024

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Science Education

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The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abortions, Campbell's Law, conflict of interest, data integrity, Discovery Institute, disinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), evolutionary biologists, fertility, Frontiers in Psychology, Goodhart's Law, Harvard University, Laszlo Bencze, mental health, Mind Matters, peer review, perverse incentives, pregnancy, pro-life, Retraction Crisis, Robert J. Marks II, Walter Bradley Center}

Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 18, 2024

Bioethics, Metascience, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
November 29, 2016

Categories
Political Science
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, algorithms, Big Data, data integrity, data science, elections, failed predictions, hype, machine learning, Nation, Neil Postman, Politics, predictions, Silicon Valley, Technopoly (book)}

In Election 2016, Why Big Data Took a Tumble

_{Brendan Dixon
November 29, 2016

Political Science, Science Reporting, Technology

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Human judgment and insight, especially trained human judgment and insight, are irreplaceable. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, Big Data, confirmation bias, credibility, data integrity, data preservation, data science, John Ioannidis, Library of Alexandria, misinformation, mythology, pragmatism, replicability, replication crisis, reproducibility crisis, sciences, scientific credibility, scientific method, scientific reliability, self-correcting, truth, truth-seeking}

Science Can Perpetuate Myths

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2013

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness, Technology

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For those who believe science is a self-correcting process leading inexorably to progress in true knowledge about the world, a professor of medical statistics has a heavy dose of realism. Read More ›