By: Björn

A checklist is associated with increased quality of reporting preclinical biomedical research: A systematic review
November 10, 2017

Irreproducibility of preclinical biomedical research has gained recent attention. To improve the quality and transparency of scientific reporting, some journals introduced…

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Findings of a retrospective, controlled cohort study of the impact of a change in Nature journals’ editorial policy for life sciences research on the completeness of reporting study design and execution.
November 10, 2017

Poor replication of in vivo and in vitro biomedical studies has been reported and this can be linked in many cases…

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Abandon Statistical Significance
November 10, 2017

In science publishing and many areas of research, we have reached a ‘binary decision rule’ in which any result is first…

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Modeling science trustworthiness under publish or perish pressure
November 10, 2017

A new mathematical model by David R. Grimes, Chris T. Bauch and John P.A. Ioannidis suggests that a bias by journals…

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Newsletter November 2017
November 10, 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS: PAASP News: – IMI Call9: PAASP is part of the EQUIPD consortium – Read more – World’s first…

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World’s first prize for “negative” scientific results announced
November 8, 2017

What is believed to be the world’s first prize for published “negative” scientific results, the “ECNP Preclinical Network Data Prize” has…

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Randomization – The Horizon homeopathic dilution experiment
October 11, 2017

All Case Study publications presented in this section have received a lot of interest among the scientific community and are particularly…

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Simple Randomisation
October 11, 2017

A randomization tool for the daily routine The case study in this Newsletter illustrates very well the importance of study subject…

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Block randomisation
October 11, 2017

In this section we provide information about useful tools for designing and analyzing experiments – instruments and equipment, which we at…

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Further commentaries, articles and blog posts – September 2017
September 28, 2017

 Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Funders and regulators are more important than journals in fixing the waste in research Exzellenztheater: Zeit…

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