{"id":19388,"date":"2022-02-17T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=19388"},"modified":"2022-02-17T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:18:58","slug":"self-correcting-science-an-empty-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/self-correcting-science-an-empty-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Self correcting science &#8211; an empty promise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important link to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstatistics.com\/itns\/2022\/01\/10\/the-joke-of-self-correcting-science-the-andero-lab-and-nature-communications\/\">thenewstatistics.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would notice a clear and obvious error, like a claimed interaction that wasn\u2019t actually tested properly. He would then send a polite email to the authors to explain the situation so it could be corrected. If the authors didn\u2019t respond, he\u2019d move on to the editors. He went through case after case that he had pursued, and the result was almost always the same: indifference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important link to thenewstatistics.com I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would notice a clear and obvious error, like a claimed interaction that wasn\u2019t actually tested properly. He would then send a polite email to the authors to explain the situation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/self-correcting-science-an-empty-promise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self correcting science &#8211; an empty promise?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19414,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}