Tag Archives: p-hacking

Why do we trust scientists?

Posted on November 9, 2025 by VM

Individuals can’t master the mathematics of cryptography or the molecular biology of vaccines, yet they still trust these fields of science and the suggestions of their exponents to make decisions. Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science | Tagged Brian Keating, Brian Wansink, communalism, contributory expertise, epistemic dependence, facts, Francesca Gino, Harry Collins, Indian knowledge systems, interactional expertise, John Hardwig, Max Weber, Mertonian norms, organised scepticism, p-hacking, rational-legal authority, Robert Evans, scientific expertise, social knowledge, social prestige | Leave a comment

A gentle push over the cliff

Posted on June 24, 2024 by VM

From ‘Rotavirus vaccine: tortured data analyses raise false safety alarm’, The Hindu, June 22, 2024: Slamming the recently published paper by Dr. Jacob Puliyel from the International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi, on rotavirus vaccine safety, microbiologist Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture | Tagged Bharat Biotech, Brian Hooker, Brian Wansink, conspiracy theory, Gagandeep Kang, Jacob Puliyel, Krishna Ella, p-hacking, peer review, rotavirus vaccine, The Hindu | Leave a comment

The not-so-obvious obvious

Posted on January 31, 2020 by VM

If your job requires you to pore through a dozen or two scientific papers every month – as mine does – you’ll start to notice a few every now and then couching a somewhat well-known fact in study-speak. I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm, Science | Tagged Brian Wansink, Cornell University, data torturing, Higgs boson, Ig Nobel Prizes, incremental research, Large Hadron Collider, Marc Abrahams, modelling, ozone, p-hacking, Ronald H Coase, scientific research, statistical significance, University of Exeter | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: p-hacking

A gentle push over the cliff

The not-so-obvious obvious

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