Red Team of Science

A newsletter dedicated to reforming the practice of science through rigorous debate. Metascience | open science | statistics

[nature @Nature]

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science. #metascience

https://t.co/UaShf3KTiC

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

“Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?”
https://t.co/sOCH9F0wXc
A link to our 2021 coverage of the researcher.
https://t.co/iCwMiEkwJr

[Saganism @Saganismm]

In the last interview of his life, Carl Sagan gave an uncannily prescient warning of the dangers that arise when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority.

[World Conf Research Integrity @WCRIFoundation]

Scientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix?

#ResearchIntegrity #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI

https://t.co/pj8u1KihHA

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

Koroshetz was adamant about improving science but his project to get schools to teach rigor has had mixed results.

https://t.co/gca4cNiDgV

cc: @NIHDirector_Jay

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[Charles Piller @cpiller]

Misconduct sleuth wins $2.63 million from major cancer institute in $15 million settlement | Science | AAAS https://t.co/2K51EpGAYa

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
https://t.co/WWFG3WmnIs

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

At least @PhysicsWorld admits to using nonsense from the literature. YouTube "warriors for science" don't need to. #metascience

https://t.co/mvrxkzaZMu

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

fexcectorn.

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

When an LLM can aaaalmost write your paper but not quite yet 🤏

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

Well deserved.

[Brazilian Reproducibility Network @BrRepNetwork]

We congratulate our parent project, the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, for winning the 2025 Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research! https://t.co/GoYwgfxast

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

New data: Most psychologists believe crisis persists despite significant progress. Yet evidence suggests there's still an advantage to bending the rules.

https://t.co/6v86zx23iV

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

A paper published in a Springer Nature journal critiquing post-publication peer review has numerous made-up references, including a Nature article falsely attributed to our Ivan Oransky.
https://t.co/8otQwQPfX0

https://t.co/GbeI2Now8j

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram
https://t.co/EtgWgWCQCb

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

"Debunking 'When Prophecy Fails'": Scholar claims documents reveal "ethical violations by the researchers."
https://t.co/Vy3WjSWReI

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

An outsider opened a box and broke the intentionality taboo in metascience. Revision is long overdue.

https://t.co/hVrcFimMVR

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

@skdh Academics saying exactly what they need to say still feels like a punch in the gut.

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

Counting hypotheses changed GWAS. Why not physics? The role of... insults.
#metascience #physics
https://t.co/Z0efO0jeW9

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

@redteamofsci We're happy to be in touch with anyone interested in that.

[Red Team of Science @redteamofsci]

If researchers are paying $50 for pre-publication review and finding errors, then funders should be paying for post-publication review.

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine.

Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency.

In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed.

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