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Looking twice at the history of science

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Correctives to #overlyhonestmethods

What lessons can we learn from the current flood of methodological confessions from scientists on Twitter? Most commentaries so far—and there have been a few from historians as well as scientists—assume that the #overlyhonestmethods meme shows that the methods of scientists are not what they are cracked up to be. I agree that the tweets are revealing, but I also think we need to be careful when deciding what they reveal. Here's why. Expand post.

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