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WASHINGTON, D. C. - A federal prosecutor is accusing a scientific journal edited by a Cleveland Clinic physician of “partisan” scientific bias and seeking answers to a series of misinformation-related ...
When science serves a cause, truth takes a back seat. This post explores how activism distorts research and why it matters.
"With science, we're always trying to build upon what was previously known, create this bigger data set to see these trends," Otten said. "Understanding that humans have this bias will hopefully help ...
Confirmation bias is seeing and hearing only what we want to see and hear. “Seeking the truth,” writes Adam Grant in his compelling book, Think Again, “is not about validating the story in your head.
Podcast hosts blast intimidation tactics against scientific publication as "fascist policy," warning this could be first step ...
Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week to a scientific journal ...
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure.
“This is a fishing expedition from a U.S. attorney, and that makes people nervous,” Kent Anderson, a consultant for scientific publishers ... groups have previously accused medical journals of bias.