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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 1d

This is how far scientific critique lags behind science. We're just learning subtraction.

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Protecting the integrity of university rankings

Addressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty

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Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 1d

I’m deeply honored to have been named as the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It recognizes my work on scientific integrity for Science Magazine over the last five years. 1/7 tinyurl.com/zz54fzyr

Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize - CASW

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 21d

There more I think about this, the more disturbing it becomes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...

I can't believe this really happened.

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 8d

How extreme is this limitless advocacy? Enough that this author has gotten away with saying that the "rabbit hole" of Hitler's big lie or Orwellian dystopia is a solution to the paradox they would not "prefer."

Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 8d

The way to increase trust in science is to stop making rules to benefit scientists.

Making self-serving rules is so universal in science that the author calls transparency a paradox because it doesn't always help your reputation.

ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 8d

Lying increases trust in science doi.org/10.1007/s111...

“a better way forward (and the real solution to the transparency paradox) would be to resolve the problem of the public overidealizing science through science education and communication to eliminate the naïve view of science as infallible.”

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 9d

The replication crisis started in much the same way, with a relatively normal paper. www.redteamofscience.com/p/tylenol-an...

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 9d

Tylenol and autism. Why normal papers make history:

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 11d

This is a thorough and important paper. No attempts to replicate previous studies were found in a sample of 465 articles in physical therapy.

Many fields have never measured these indicators and it takes a small number of authors to do it.

François Jabouille @francois-jabouille.bsky.social · 12d

📰 New preprint: Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up 📰

Where does physical therapy stand on the replication crisis and open-science practices?

We have identified significant shortcomings in current physical therapy research practice
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 12d

"Harvard could embed metascience into General Education Courses, ensuring that they reach as many students as possible." Ambika Grover in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Can Harvard Cure Science’s Mistrust Epidemic? | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard leads the world in science and in philosophizing on how to make the world a better place. It’s time to make metascience a bigger part of the conversation.

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 12d

Ivan Oransky of @retractionwatch.com
on delayed scientific reform. "The problem when you don't self-regulate or self-police... when you don't do those things, other people will come in a do them. Probably in a way you don't like." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaZ...

Future Proof Your Research With Rigor

YouTube video by Community 4 Rigor

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 12d

"The NIH Common Fund has teamed up with NASA’s Tournament Lab to launch the Replication Prize, a competition to advance scientific research by collecting ideas and strategies to make important lines of biomedical research more replicable."

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NIH Common Fund Launches Replication Prize | NIH Common Fund

The NIH Common Fund has teamed up with NASA’s Tournament Lab to launch the Replication Prize, a competition to advance scientific research by collecting ideas and strategies to make important lines of...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 13d

I want this kind of back and forth to be somewhere that everyone can see it and enjoy it, in perpetuity. What if peer review worked more like this, in the open?

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13d

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 14d

Evolution, and why science doesn't mind portraying itself as a bit shit sometimes.

www.redteamofscience.com/p/science-ha...

"Science has always been a bit shit"

It evolved that way

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 15d

"The question is not whether the factory’s settings are wrong but whether it should be a paper factory in the first place."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Opinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 16d

The Red Team of Science is on book leave. Subscribe for occasional science reform updates, paper reviews, and lesson plans.

Like the site, the book is for professionals in healthcare, investment, journalism, and anyone learning scientific critique. (Taylor & Francis, 2026)

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 20d

It's true metascience needs to prune nonsense or end up irrelevant and unscientific.

An invitation to debate to three non-positivists in metascience got no reply. (The invitation stands, of course.)

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 28d

For the first time, the COPE Retraction guidelines now (version 3) address the possibility of mentioning those who found the issue (e.g. data sleuths). But it only mentions it *can* happen; stops short of recommending it!
#metascience

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Sep 8

Some excellent points from @stuartbuck.bsky.social including lack of transparency at NIH, dependency on amateur sleuths, and the need to fund post-publication review and replication.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/08/n...

Reforming NIH: A blueprint for 21st century medical research

We all benefit from a well-functioning and well-funded NIH. But it needs reform, writes the Good Science Project’s Stuart Buck.

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Sep 3

Giving feedback to a scientific project continues to spiral out of control, and a FOIA mystery is solved thanks to @publiccitizen.bsky.social

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Watching the watchmen at NIH

A FOIA mystery is solved

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Aug 27

10 years ago?! Holy smokes.

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Aug 25

One pattern we've seen in metascience is it tends to become more and more meta. The @comm4rigor.bsky.social saga has reached FOIA levels of meta.
www.redteamofscience.com/p/a-document...

A document request reveals NIH’s approach to the law

"The spirit of the FOIA"

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Aug 22

3. The head of coronavirus research at WIV admitted, "The coronavirus research in our laboratory is conducted in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratories" and this was published in Science (see link to "full" response). doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Wuhan coronavirus hunter Shi Zhengli speaks out

China's "Bat Woman" denies responsibility for the pandemic, demands apology from Trump.

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'm sorry I missed this!

@padkaer.bsky.social, 1. More minor lab leaks also happen more frequently.
2. You're still using a higher probability event (less serious spillover) to make the case for a lower probability event (pandemic level spillover). That's fine except you then can't ignore #1 above.

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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Bounty Hunters for Science"

#ResearchIntegrity

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Bounty Hunters for Science

The federal government should establish a system for awarding bounties to people who identify fraud in federally-funded research.

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Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · Aug 12

"It reinforces a model of publishing that continues to treat peer review as a consulting service for editors, rather than a scholarly contribution in its own right." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture - Impact of Social Sciences

As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.

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