Ivory towers of academia (& shiny ones in Vancouver)


Today’s Vancouver Sun suggests that a competitive university culture discourages sharing of knowledge, which then leads to the publication of many flawed and fraudulent studies.  This is a rehash of issues I cited recently with the warning Beware of obvious answers and positive results.  It would be great, albeit a bit boring, if journals published negative results from well-designed experiments with adequate power to see beneficial results.  As my colleague Wayne Adams says

“Most of what you learn from an experiment is what NOT to do.”

PS. I took this picture Granville Island looking across to downtown Vancouver.

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