By: Björn
Statement on Statistical Significance and P-values
March 21, 2016The world’s largest professional association of statisticians, the American Statistical Association, has made a public statement regarding the use of P-values…
Read MoreWhen Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis
March 21, 2016In this article written by Scannell and Bosley, the contrast between increased costs for drug discovery and the decreased success rate…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in March 2016
March 20, 2016Robust science needs robust corrections. David Allison and his colleagues argue that mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard…
Read MorePresented data do not always support conclusions made in a paper
March 20, 2016We will continue presenting Case Study publications that have received a lot of interest among the scientific community (and sometimes even in mass…
Read MoreRetraction analysis: Can GSP governance make a difference?
March 20, 2016During the past decade, the number of retractions increased dramatically, even when normalized by the total number of articles published in…
Read MoreWhat do people mean when saying that studies were done in a blinded fashion?
March 20, 2016We have evaluated blinding procedures at 12 academic labs, 7 contract research organisations (CROs), and 4 industrial pharmacology labs and obtained…
Read MoreDGGF Membership
March 20, 2016DGGF MembershipPAASP became a member of the DGGF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gute Forschungspraxis; German Society for Good Research Practice).The DGGF is the largest…
Read MoreMarch 2016
March 7, 2016PAASP became a member of the German Society for Good Research Practice (DGGF) – Read more Blinding analysis: Are all ‘blinded’ studies done blind? – Read more…
Read MoreIrreproducibility in Preclinical Biomedical Research: Perceptions, Uncertainties, and Knowledge Gaps.
February 28, 2016Over the last several years, many articles and commentaries were written on the subject of „reproducibility of research data“. In this…
Read MoreSperm RNA carries marks of trauma
February 20, 2016We will use this Case Study section to draw your attention to publications that have received a lot of attention in the scientific…
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