In: Commentaries
Commentary March 2020
March 31, 2020Comment on Walsh et al. “The statistical significance of randomized controlled trial results is frequently fragile: a case for a Fragility…
Read MoreImproving quality of preclinical academic research through auditing: A feasibility study
March 31, 2020Commentary provided by Claudia Kurreck (Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) The performance of audits and assessments is always a…
Read MoreOf lab notebooks and leaders in science
February 1, 2020Good research practices are often said to work against the current success model in science (based on positive results, number and…
Read MoreIs N-Hacking ever OK?
February 1, 2020It has been proposed repeatedly that adding samples based on results of initial experiments is a form of p-hacking (see e.g. new…
Read MoreMost innovations are not advances: innovation + evaluation = progress
January 23, 2020A blog post by Paul Glasziou from January 2013 starts with this headline, which is very much in line with our…
Read MoreInstead of replicating studies with problems, let’s replicate the good studies
December 18, 2019A few months ago, the “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was…
Read MoreAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
December 18, 2019We have read with great interest a recent commentary in Nature about scientific research organizations hiring integrity reviewers to vet their manuscripts before…
Read MoreARRIVE 2.0
November 22, 2019A long-awaited revision of the ARRIVE guidelines has finally been published (The ARRIVE guidelines 2019).What impact can we expect from ARRIVE…
Read More“Avoiding the Edge Effect – How to increase reproducibility of in vitro microplate experiments?”
August 12, 2019The randomization of study subjects is commonly discussed for in vivo studies and is in general an accepted practice. However, for…
Read More“Integrity and Trust, a University cannot do Without”
August 12, 2019“Trust us, we are a University”KU Leuven was ranked the most innovative university in Europe for the fourth year in a row! This…
Read More