Peer Review: the Publication Game and “the Natural Selection of Bad Science”
Editor’s Note: This is part II; part I can be found here. Professor Brian Wansink is head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. The lab has had…
Posts tagged with
“scientific research”
How Is Science Judged? How Useful Is Peer Review?
The British journal Nature, home in 1953 to Watson and Crick’s important DNA paper, was by 1966 rather in the doldrums, with a backlog of submitted manuscripts and losing ground…
Perverse Incentives in Science: 21st Century Funding for 20th Century Research
The Paradigm Shift Not long ago I was working with my occasional co-author, an associate dean in the school of economic, political and policy sciences at the University of Texas…