Peer Review Is Unpaid, Invisible, and Nobody Is Measuring It
The only quality gate in science runs on volunteer labour worth over a billion dollars a year in one country, with no record of who did it, no measure of …
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What It Costs to Not Trust a Paper
Every figure here is cited. Half of preclinical research does not reproduce, ten thousand papers were retracted in one year, and the direct cost of the first …
Read →The Negative Results Nobody Publishes
An experiment that failed in one lab gets run again in fifteen others, because there is no way to find out that it failed. The numbers on how much of the record …
Read →Who Owns Your Data After You Graduate?
A doctoral student produces the work, holds none of it, and in most cases has no independent record establishing that they did it. Three separate problems that …
Read →Your Research Is Not Safe, And You Probably Know It
A Delhi University professor recently lost six years of PhD research to a bag theft near North Campus. That story stayed with me, because I think most …
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