Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Science on August 19, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The irreproducibility crisis of modern science—the failure of large proportions of scientific research to produce true results—just keeps on going. In November, a survey of 1,924 biomedical […]
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Described as a man who “always projected ‘moral and ethical rectitude,’” esteemed mid-1800s glacial geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin once made a profound statement at the 1888 University of Michigan Annual Commencement: “Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality.” This statement appears to ring ever truer when one considers recent trends in 21st-century science. Before diving […]
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A prime piece of scientific research intended to ameliorate the irreproducibility crisis has itself been withdrawn for failing to adhere to proper reproducibility standards. One of the prime directives of reproducibility reformers is to preregister your research—say in advance what you intend to do and how you will do it—so we know you didn’t repurpose […]
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