Let's focus on quality science, regardless of p-values, significance, or "sexiness".

Whoa, the journal even rejected the comment. That's borderline criminal (and not "self-correcting").

Tagging @forbetterscience.bsky.social - maybe this could get even more exposure.

Also, @indexcat-ai.bsky.social thinks the original paper cites a LOT of junk:

app.indexcat.com/s/-Dzb97QjTw...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:

merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Hear hear! All #papermill frauds, re-unite! It's the yearly APBC paper mill #fraud conference! I have never seen so many paper mill frauds together! This conference is the 'biochar network' conference. Here they discuss how to publish more BS! 👇https://biocharconf.org/speakers.asp

When reading a paper, it's important to ask "could this study have been designed differently?". Paperstars encourages a cultrue of sound experimental design, building the foundations for great science.

Shareable Indexcat scores are now available!

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Detecting Inconsistencies and Fraud in Research Data: Time for Authors to Share the Data Underlying Their Summary Statistics as a Matter of Course

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GitHub - metalume/atlas-ontology: ATLAS provides a shared, machine-readable vocabulary for describing *what went wrong* and *how we know*, enabling interoperable tools for research credibility and int... ATLAS provides a shared, machine-readable vocabulary for describing *what went wrong* and *how we know*, enabling interoperable tools for research credibility and integrity assessment. - metalume/a...

🚀 We just open-sourced ATLAS: an OWL 2 ontology for classifying unreliable/"cargo cult" scientific literature and its detection markers.

Failure modes, controlled vocabularies — all machine-readable.

Built by @indexcat-ai.bsky.social More community tools coming.

github.com/metalume/atlas-ontology

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