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A detailed analysis of a new infographic dealing with the issue of falsification in scientific research.... Read more »
Ioannidis, J. (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine, 2(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Moonesinghe, R., Khoury, M., & Janssens, A. (2007) Most Published Research Findings Are False—But a Little Replication Goes a Long Way. PLoS Medicine, 4(2). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040028
Young NS, Ioannidis JP, & Al-Ubaydli O. (2008) Why current publication practices may distort science. PLoS medicine, 5(10). PMID: 18844432
Fanelli D. (2009) How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic review and meta-analysis of survey data. PloS one, 4(5). PMID: 19478950
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A comprehensive debunking of the Daily Mail's reporting of science.... Read more »
The Poynter Institute. (2006) Eyetracking the news. A study of print and online reading. Poynter. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
For the first time, scientists have reconstructed human speech from an ECoG signal.... Read more »
Pasley, B. David, S. Mesgarani, N. Flinker, A. Shamma, S. Crone, N. Knight, R. Chang, E. (2012) Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. PLoS Biology. DOI: info:/http://www.plosbiology.org/article/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001251
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Watch the full video of the lecture and uncover what was in the slides censored for "copyright reasons"... Read more »
Nutt, D., King, L., & Phillips, L. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. The Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-1565. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Nutt, D. (2009) Estimating drug harms: a risky business?. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. info:/
Halpern JH, Sherwood AR, Hudson JI, Gruber S, Kozin D, & Pope HG Jr. (2011) Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 106(4), 777-86. PMID: 21205042
Carhart-Harris, R., Erritzoe, D., Williams, T., Stone, J., Reed, L., Colasanti, A., Tyacke, R., Leech, R., Malizia, A., Murphy, K.... (2012) Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119598109
Editorial team. (2010) The EMCDDA annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, also published in Euro surveillance :European communicable disease bulletin, 15(46). PMID: 21144426
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A quick factual decomposition of the assertion that cannabis is lethal, made by the Daily Mail in response to Richard Branson's evidence at the Select Committee on drugs.... Read more »
Hughes CE, & Stevens A. (2012) A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and alcohol review, 31(1), 101-13. PMID: 22212070
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
This year 134 suspect new journals have appeared from the abyss, all published by the same clandestine company “Scientific & Academic Publishing, USA“. Scientists have been quick to raise the alarm and ruthless in their response.... Read more »
Morrison, Heather. (2012) Scholarly Communication in Crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the internet age. Simon Fraser University School of Communication. info:/
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On Friday political satirist Stephen Colbert entered the U.S. presidential race. A significant proportion of Conservatives in fact fail to understand satire and instead believe Colbert to be a Conservative commentator opposed to liberal thought.... Read more »
LaMarre, H., Landreville, K., & Beam, M. (2009) The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 14(2), 212-231. DOI: 10.1177/1940161208330904
RAMSAY, C., KULL, S., LEWIS, E., & SUBIA, S. (2010) Misinformation and the 2010 Election. Published online at WORLDPUBLICOPINION.ORG by University of Maryland. info:/
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A research group at the University of Indiana has developed a program called Truthy that allows anyone to track cases of "astroturfing" on twitter. Any search term can be entered into Truthy and the program will scan the Twitter API and build a model of how the search term originated. ... Read more »
Ratkiewicz,J. Conover,M. Meiss,M. Gonçalves,B. Patil,S. Flammini,A. Menczer, F. (2011) Truthy: Mapping the Spread of Astroturf in Microblog Streams. World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). . info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
An irreverent look at a paper published in "The Breast Journal" with 15 references, all about sex, not cancer.... Read more »
Stuger, J. (2011) An Essay on Sexual Frustration as the Cause of Breast Cancer in Women: How Correlations and Cultural Blind Spots Conceal Causal Effects. The Breast Journal. DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2011.01206.x
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A round-up of this year’s drugs news along with the latest available statistical data which shows that helium killed more than ecstasy, cannabis, mephedrone and GHB combined.... Read more »
Nutt, D., King, L., & Phillips, L. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. The Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-1565. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Measham,F. Moore, K. Østergaard, J. (2011) Mephedrone, ‘‘Bubble’’ and unidentified white powders: the contested identities of synthetic ‘‘legal highs". DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TODAY, 137-146. info:/
Editorial team. (2010) The EMCDDA annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, also published in Euro surveillance :European communicable disease bulletin, 15(46). PMID: 21144426
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after thirty years of silence, authors of a standard clinical psychiatric bedside test have issued take down orders of new medical research.... Read more »
Newman, J., & Feldman, R. (2011) Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(26), 2447-2449. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110652
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A cheeky look at a new finding... Read more »
Guéguen, N., & Lamy, L. (2011) The effect of the word “love” on compliance to a request for humanitarian aid: An evaluation in a field setting. Social Influence, 6(4), 249-258. DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2011.627771
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A study in to how the tabloids can misrepresent academic research.... Read more »
Kucewicz MT, Tricklebank MD, Bogacz R, & Jones MW. (2011) Dysfunctional prefrontal cortical network activity and interactions following cannabinoid receptor activation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(43), 15560-8. PMID: 22031901
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Capsaicin, the active chemical in "pepper spray" appears to be lethal to individuals under the influence of certain stimulants with the majority of deaths reported occuring within one hour.... Read more »
Mendelson, J., Tolliver, B., Delucchi, K., Baggott, M., Flower, K., Harris, C., Galloway, G., & Berger, P. (2009) Capsaicin, an active ingredient in pepper sprays, increases the lethality of cocaine. Forensic Toxicology, 28(1), 33-37. DOI: 10.1007/s11419-009-0079-9
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A team of bogus developers are applying for crowd funding for a project that does not exist. Can you spot the flaws?... Read more »
Damian Cruse, Srivas Chennu, Camille Chatelle, Tristan A Bekinschtein, Davinia Fernández-Espejo, John D Pickard, Steven Laureys, Adrian M Owen. (2011) Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study. The Lancet. info:/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61224-5
Coan, J., & Allen, J. (2004) Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion. Biological Psychology, 67(1-2), 7-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.03.002
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Does what it says on the tin.... Read more »
Agarwal S, Yu H, & Kohane I. (2011) BioNOT: A searchable database of biomedical negated sentences. BMC bioinformatics, 12(1), 420. PMID: 22032181
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Experience a hallucination without psychedelics... Read more »
Caputo GB. (2010) Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion. Perception, 39(7), 1007-8. PMID: 20842976
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A research group at the University of Indiana has developed a program called Truthy that allows anyone to track cases of “astrotweeting”. Any search term can be entered into Truthy and the program will scan the Twitter API and build a model of how the search term originated. ... Read more »
Ratkiewicz,J. Conover,M. Meiss,M. Gonçalves,B. Patil,S. Flammini,A. Menczer, F. (2011) Truthy: Mapping the Spread of Astroturf in Microblog Streams. World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). . info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
fMRI used to create a video output based on a dictionary created by showing participants 7200s of random colour video.... Read more »
Nishimoto S, Vu AT, Naselaris T, Benjamini Y, Yu B, & Gallant JL. (2011) Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies. Current biology : CB. PMID: 21945275
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Wentz CT, Bernstein JG, Monahan P, Guerra A, Rodriguez A, & Boyden ES. (2011) A wirelessly powered and controlled device for optical neural control of freely-behaving animals. Journal of neural engineering, 8(4), 46021. PMID: 21701058
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