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It is time to do away with outlandish claims and make science duller

It is time to do away with outlandish claims and make science duller

Hyped up claims and problems replicating research mean the values that make science so successful are being ignored. Science owes it to itself and the world to reform

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Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields

Physics

Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields

News

How to sniff out the good coronavirus studies from the bad

Humans

How to sniff out the good coronavirus studies from the bad

News

How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science

Health

How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science

News

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Physics

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Features

How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

Humans

How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

Regulars

eye through magnifying glass

Humans

I scanned thousands of research images by eye to expose academic fraud

Regulars

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

Humans

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

News

Dominic Cummings

Technology

Revealed: Details of Dominic Cummings' plan for new UK research agency

News

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

Humans

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

A productivity-driven funding culture has allowed sloppy science to flourish – but now some researchers are fighting back, says Clare Wilson

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Humans

Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding

News

Environment

Naomi Oreskes asks "why trust science" in an age of denialism

Culture

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Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

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Life

Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?

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