Misinformation in and about science

JD West, CT Bergstrom - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans learn about the world by collectively acquiring information, filtering it, and sharing
what we know. Misinformation undermines this process. The repercussions are extensive …

Fusobacterium nucleatum — symbiont, opportunist and oncobacterium

CA Brennan, WS Garrett - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Fusobacterium nucleatum has long been found to cause opportunistic infections and has
recently been implicated in colorectal cancer; however, it is a common member of the oral …

Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology

TM Errington, M Mathur, CK Soderberg, A Denis… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Replicability is an important feature of scientific research, but aspects of contemporary
research culture, such as an emphasis on novelty, can make replicability seem less …

Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology

TM Errington, A Denis, N Perfito, E Iorns, BA Nosek - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We conducted the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to investigate the replicability of
preclinical research in cancer biology. The initial aim of the project was to repeat 193 …

Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond

C Allen, DMA Mehler - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The movement towards open science is a consequence of seemingly pervasive failures to
replicate previous research. This transition comes with great benefits but also significant …

Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine

T Ching, DS Himmelstein… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of
combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently …

Chatgpt as research scientist: Probing gpt's capabilities as a research librarian, research ethicist, data generator, and data predictor

SA Lehr, A Caliskan, S Liyanage, MR Banaji - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
How good a research scientist is ChatGPT? We systematically probed the capabilities of
GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 across four central components of the scientific process: as a Research …

Making replication mainstream

RA Zwaan, A Etz, RE Lucas… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Many philosophers of science and methodologists have argued that the ability to repeat
studies and obtain similar results is an essential component of science. A finding is elevated …

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

Open Science Collaboration - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it
characterizes current research is unknown. Scientific claims should not gain credence …

Growth rate inhibition metrics correct for confounders in measuring sensitivity to cancer drugs

M Hafner, M Niepel, M Chung, PK Sorger - Nature methods, 2016 - nature.com
Drug sensitivity and resistance are conventionally quantified by IC50 or E max values, but
these metrics are highly sensitive to the number of divisions taking place over the course of …