Combating bad science
Metaphycians
Sloppy researchers beware. A new institute
has you in its sight
Ms.Kokubo’s research on STRP cells is now
controversial issue in Japan.
Researchers have to have some kind of ethics,
scientific ethics in their mind.
The people who are not engaged in research
also know threats that heart the credibility of science.
What I want to discuss:
・“Why most published research findings are false (or irreproducible)”?
・ How do you
think to keep the quality of scientific research?
What the article argues:
John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist, and
Steven Goodman found a new institution called METRICS.
METRICS aims to solidify
the young discipline by “meta-research”.
Dr Ioannidis will organize conference,
create a “journal watch” to monitor scientific
publisher’s work and spread
message to policy makers, government and other interested parties.
Identifying and
minimizing present threat to medical research quality
Threat 1: Irreproducibility（再現不可能性）
No one has tried to find out whether re-run
experiments have actually had any impact on credibility of research.
Threat 2: Wasted effort（無駄な努力）
Vast amount of money(over $200 billion on
medical studies) was wasted on false studies never published or poorly
reported.
Threat 3: Publication bias（掲載の偏見）
Not all studies that are conducted are
pubilished.
