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From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: “OSTP seeks information to help improve the effectiveness of Federal scientific integrity policies to enhance public trust in scien...

https://junkscience.com/2021/07/dont-laugh-how-to-improve-public-trust-in-government-science/

This morning’s Washington Post front page tries to keep the coronavirus lockdown going based on reports of increasing cases in some states. But Obama CDC director Tom Friedman debunks this hyst...

https://junkscience.com/2020/06/obama-cdc-director-undercuts-wapo-bid-to-keep-coronavirus-lockdown-going/

Here are some thoughts from an e-mail chain I was on today about reproducibility in science. Colleague #1 noted that, in some fields, as much as 80% of the published science was not reproducible....

https://junkscience.com/2019/11/the-no-1-problem-in-science-dishonesty/

Since the days of the EPA secondhand smoke risk assessment, JunkScience.com has had contempt for the bogus statistical technique of meta-analysis. We have also taken the lead in exposing as fraud...

https://junkscience.com/2019/03/stan-young-study-exposes-publication-bias-p-hacking-and-junk-meta-analysis-in-environmental-epidemiology-and-rubbishes-a-highly-cited-air-quality-paper-in-the-process/

The Department of Interior has just issued a science transparency directive to its staff (see below). DoI’s intention is to enshrine science transparency via rulemaking. Another YUGE win for us...

https://junkscience.com/2018/10/winning-science-transparency-moves-to-department-of-interior/

I’ve always suspected that Stanford University professor John Ioannidis was only posing as a science reformer. His commentary in PLoS against the EPA science transparency rulemaking validates t...

https://junkscience.com/2018/05/stanford-science-reformer-ioannidis-exposes-himself-as-incompetent-or-insincere-take-your-pick/

Now finally available in PDF format, here is my 1994 report on science policy that the Clinton Administration tried to suppress. You can use it to comment on the just proposed EPA science transpa...

https://junkscience.com/2018/05/milloys-1994-groundbreaking-report-on-epa-science-policy-and-default-assumptions/

Get your comments to EPA before May 30, 2018. Click here for the official announcement in the Federal Register and to submit your comment online. Click here for a PDF of the Federal Register anno...

https://junkscience.com/2018/05/epa-officially-proposes-science-transparency-rule-30-day-comment-period-begins/

P-hacking is where researchers collect or select data and statistical analysis until nonsignifiant results become significant. Click for the study.

https://junkscience.com/2018/03/the-extent-and-consequences-of-p-hacking-in-science/

‘Science’ is facing a replication crisis. Click here for the article.

https://junkscience.com/2018/03/publication-bias-and-the-canonization-of-false-facts/