Cashing in on transparency in science | Science/AAAS | News

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-01-09

Summary:

"Psychologist Brian Nosek believes that reproducibility is a core principle of science. To promote the idea, he co-founded a nonprofit organization in 2013 that allows scientists to publish a description of their experiments before they conduct them. This week Nosek’s Center for Open Science (COS) went a step further, offering $1000 to every scientist who preregisters their protocol with COS. The payment is meant to be a carrot leading to greater transparency and accountability in research, says Nosek, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville ..."

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http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2016/01/cashing-transparency-science

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Date tagged:

01/09/2016, 09:03

Date published:

01/09/2016, 04:03