Peer review
- Davidson Institute
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Every year, scientific articles are retracted from journals due to errors, irreproducible findings, forgeries, or conflicts of interest. How science's correction mechanisms work, and why retracting an article is not necessarily evidence of failure
- Avi Blizovsky
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OMB proposal gives political appointees more power in funding decisions, limits collaborations with countries designated as adversaries, and makes it harder to publish articles and attend conferences. European research organizations fear long-term harm to collaboration
- Avi Blizovsky
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Until World War II, the U.S. government invested relatively little in research conducted by universities and companies. The emergency gave rise to research contracts, expert evaluations, overhead funding, and rules for distributing patent rights—mechanisms that continue
- Avi Blizovsky
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When Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876, most institutions of higher education in the United States were still focused on teaching and training the elite. The new combination of original research, doctoral studies, and teaching created a different kind of institution.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Germany, Britain, and France dominated science in the early 20th century, but the United States overtook them through the absorption of researchers, long-term public investment, strong universities, and scientific freedom. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a cut
- One Truth For Everyone
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Science does not rely on stories or authority but on reproducible observations and experiments, and on rules that reduce bias and allow for the correction of errors over time.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Northwestern researchers have uncovered international networks of “article mills,” brokers, and hijacked journals—producing organized scientific fraud on an industrial scale.
- Avi Blizovsky
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The QED platform offers researchers critical feedback within minutes, to more quickly identify good, original, and valid science above the “noise” of the flood of literature, without taking the individual out of the loop.
