By: Björn

Statement on Statistical Significance and P-values
March 21, 2016

The world’s largest professional association of statisticians, the American Statistical Association, has made a public statement regarding the use of P-values…

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When Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis
March 21, 2016

In this article written by Scannell and Bosley, the contrast between increased costs for drug discovery and the decreased success rate…

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Additional Reads in March 2016
March 20, 2016

Robust science needs robust corrections. David Allison and his colleagues argue that mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard…

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Presented data do not always support conclusions made in a paper
March 20, 2016

We will continue presenting Case Study publications that have received a lot of interest among the scientific community (and sometimes even in mass…

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Retraction analysis: Can GSP governance make a difference?
March 20, 2016

During the past decade, the number of retractions increased dramatically, even when normalized by the total number of articles published in…

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What do people mean when saying that studies were done in a blinded fashion?
March 20, 2016

We have evaluated blinding procedures at 12 academic labs, 7 contract research organisations (CROs), and 4 industrial pharmacology labs and obtained…

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DGGF Membership
March 20, 2016

DGGF MembershipPAASP became a member of the DGGF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gute Forschungspraxis; German Society for Good Research Practice).The DGGF is the largest…

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March 2016
March 7, 2016

PAASP became a member of the German Society for Good Research Practice (DGGF) – Read more Blinding analysis: Are all ‘blinded’ studies done blind? – Read more…

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Irreproducibility in Preclinical Biomedical Research: Perceptions, Uncertainties, and Knowledge Gaps.
February 28, 2016

Over the last several years, many articles and commentaries were written on the subject of „reproducibility of research data“. In this…

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Sperm RNA carries marks of trauma
February 20, 2016

We 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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