Tag: research
The Corruption of Evidence Based MedicineâââKilling for Profit
From Medium: According to many prominent physicians, so-called "evidence based medicine" is no longer useful. Much of the evidence base has been corrupted by the...
“Financial Health” is Good Medicine in Mental Health Care
In this piece for the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry blog, Lucile Bruce highlights the work of Associate Research Scientist Dr. Annie...
Is It Time to Let Go of One of Science’s Measures?
From The Conversation: Scientists are increasingly finding that the P value, one of the classic science statistics, is not as reliable as we like to...
High Rates of Questionable Research Practices Found in Ecology and Evolution
A new study, published online by the Open Science Foundation, suggests that questionable research practices (QRPs) are prevalent in the fields of ecology and evolution.
Yale Neuroscientists Debunked the Idea That Anyone is “Normal”
From Quartz: A new study by Yale neuroscientists proves that there is no universal, unconditionally optimal profile of brain functioning. This means that differences often categorized...
Disclosing Corporate Funding is Not Nearly Enough
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: A number of studies have shown the significant problems that arise from financial conflicts in research. Disclosure of researchers'...
When Data Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Does
From The New York Times: In recent years, social scientists have become increasingly concerned about the "replication crisis," i.e. the dearth of reproducible research results....
Hearing Voices May Actually Be a Good Thing
From CBS Denver: A new study suggests that people who hear voices may have an increased ability to decode complex sound waves.
"The scientists studied a...
The Corruption of Medical Language
In this piece for The BMJ, Richard Smith emphasizes the need for clear, understandable academic writing that is accessible to general audiences.
"Almost everything, I believe,...
New Study Challenges Impartiality of Peer Review
New research shows that more connected and well-known researchers are more likely to be published, even when they receive negative reviews.
Writing Women Into Psychology
From Psychology Today: A recent study examining a sample of widely used social psychology textbooks found that the contributions of women and people of color...
Kids Perform Better When Dressed as Batman
From World Economic Forum: A recent study found that children aged 4-6 maintained better focus and were less easily distracted while performing boring tasks when dressed...
When the Mad Research the Mad
In this piece for Asylum Magazine, Sue Phillips, Penny Stafford, and Shirley Anne Collie discuss their involvement in a participatory action research project evaluating the...
Researchers Find Oddities in High-Profile Gender Studies
From Ars Technica: Psychologist Nicolas Guéguen's numerous research studies in the field of social psychology have yielded results that demonstrate and fuel binary models of...
Anyone Can Be Trained to Hallucinate
From Flipboard: In a recent study on auditory hallucinations, all participants â not just those who had been diagnosed with psychosis â experienced conditioned hallucinations. The study...
The Epidemic of “Junk Science”
From The Lown Institute: Every year, we spend $240 billion to fund biomedical research. According to a science reporter and author Richard Harris, as much as half...
Helpful and Harmful Therapist Behaviors, According to Clients
From The British Psychological Society: A recent study has broken new ground by asking clients to provide detailed feedback on a second-by-second basis of their experience of...
AI-Controlled Brain Implants for Mood Disorders Tested in People
From Nature: Two teams funded by the US military's research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have begun preliminary trials of brain implants...
Science is Broken
In this piece for Aeon, Siddhartha Roy and Marc A. Edwards explore how increasingly perverse incentives and the academic business model are affecting scientific practices and...
Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims
From Psychology Today: The American Psychological Association has just issued guidelines for treating trauma that are backed by faulty science. The research behind the guidelines...
Scientists Start to Tease Out the Ways Racism Hurts Health
From NPR: Scientists are beginning to understand the subtle ways that experiences of racism and discrimination affect people's health on both a physiological and psychological...
What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us
From the Boston Review: In his new book Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the "Unfortunate Experiment," Ronald W. Jones chronicles the history of New...
Study Suggests Having Kids in Foster Care Bad for Mothers
From CBC News: A recent study shows that having a child taken into foster care has detrimental effects on the mother's mental health and may reduce...
Is Spanking Harmful? Study Finds Link With Future Mental Illness
From The Kansas City Star: A new study from the University of Michigan has found a link between spanking and serious problems in adulthood including mental health...
Vampire Medicines
In this piece, Dr. David Healy describes the various factors contributing to the lack of awareness surrounding the harmful and potentially dangerous effects of...
