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The replication crisis in science is now so bad, scientific bodies have to give prizes to people trying to stop the publishing of flawed/fraudulent research. Here's my long read on the how the problems should be fixed. bit.ly/3XFryfd

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British Neuroscience Association

@BritishNeuro

Jan 19

The 2023 BNA Credibility Prizes recognise outstanding efforts to make neuroscience as credible as possible. There's a cash prize for the student category, and all winners receive passes to our 2023 International Festival of Neuroscience. Full details: bnacredibility.org.uk/prizes

10:31 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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Tx for sharing

! It was great talking to you about the importance of credibility 🙂. Just to clarify: these prizes aren't to stop fraudulent research (extremely rare!) but to recognise those going above & beyond to tackle unintentional irreproducibility.

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Thanks for clarifying. But I would ask: just _how_ rare is fraud? I don't think anyone can give a figure. And if we don't have a figure how can we say it is rare?

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