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- 'What is at stake when we talk about scientific truth?' If peer-review journals cannot be trusted, what is so special about science? Interesting podcast. https://soundcloud.com/instituteofartandideas/everything-we-know-is-wrong 3 comments philosophy
- New research hypothesizes that up to 90% of peer reviewed studies in medical journals is misleading or flat out wrong. Can scientists be trusted, the article wonders? http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/?single_page=true 3 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We're excited to bring you industry experts from the official Peer Review Week 2020 Panel. Join our experts who will be answering all your questions around the theme 'Trust in Peer Review'. Ask us anything! All welcome. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/iy7yk1/askscience_ama_series_were_excited_to_bring_you/ 120 comments askscience
- "National Lawful Use of Guns Survey," by Michael Siegel PhD at Boston University, identifies reasons why gun owners don't trust gun researchers (peer reviewed science within 6 months) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343261229_the_meaning_of_guns_to_gun_owners_in_the_us_the_2019_national_lawful_use_of_guns_survey 49 comments science
- Trusting the results of any calculation run on scientific software requires full understanding of the functioning of that software. Unfortunately, most software used today never gets any peer review. http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n7/full/nphys3815.html 15 comments science
- Emin Gün Sirer - For the record: BS sidechains require trust. Despite the lip service to the "trustless reverse peg" in the white paper, that peg never materialized. In fact, that paper would never pass peer review, because the claims made in it are not achievable with the tech described in it. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/945832683975991307 11 comments btc