{"id":17550,"date":"2018-09-16T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17550"},"modified":"2018-09-16T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:58:31","slug":"mistaken-carrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/16\/mistaken-carrots\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistaken Carrots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang want to improve<\/a> the quality of scientific literature, and along the way make this observation in JCI<\/strong><\/em>, a publication of Johns Hopkins’ School of Medicine<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

vii. Fostering a culture of rigor.<\/i>\u00a0In recent decades, many life science researchers have learned to accept a culture of impact, which stresses publication in high-impact journals, flashy claims, and packaging of results into tidy stories. Today, a scientist who publishes incorrect articles in high-impact journals is more likely to enjoy a successful career than one who publishes careful and rigorous studies in lower-impact journals, provided that the publications of the former are not retracted. This misplaced value system creates perverse incentives for scientists to participate in a \u201ctragedy of the commons\u201d that is detrimental to science (17<\/a><\/span>). The culture of impact must be replaced by a culture of rigor that emphasizes quality over quantity. A focus on experimental redundancy, error analysis, logic, appropriate use of statistics, and intellectual honesty can help make research more rigorous and likely to be true (18<\/a><\/span>). The publication of confirmatory or contradictory findings must also be encouraged to allow the scientific literature to provide a more accurate and comprehensive reflection of the body of scientific evidence (19<\/a><\/span>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the scientist who values fame and fortune over getting it right, this is a golden observation. However, we shouldn’t depend on the researcher to have irreproachable ethics, but rather to structure the system so they don’t have a choice but to get the research right in order to gain that fortune and fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang want to improve the quality of scientific literature, and along the way make this observation in JCI, a publication of Johns Hopkins’ School of Medicine: vii. Fostering a culture of rigor.\u00a0In recent decades, many life science researchers have learned to accept a culture of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17551,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550\/revisions\/17551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}