Estuary Research Suffers from Scientific Bias

Untargeted metabolomics suffers from incomplete data analysis

Introduction: Untargeted metabolomics is a powerful tool for biological discoveries. Significant advances in computational approaches to analyzing the complex raw data have been made, yet it is not clear how exhaustive and reliable are the data analysis results. Objectives: Assessment of the quality of data analysis results in untargeted metabolomics. Methods: Five published untargeted metabolo...

Evaluating Scientific Research in the Context of Prior Belief: Hindsight Bias or Confirmation Bias?

When there is a mismatch between new evidence and prior beliefs, do people reject the conclusions from this evidence because of confirmation bias or do they support them because of hindsight bias? Ninety-four participants expressed a belief about a study’s outcome before reading a research report. When belief was confirmed, the study’s methodology was subsequently rated more positively and find...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Editorial bias in scientific publications.

INTRODUCTION Many authors believe that there are biases in scientific publications. Editorial biases include publication bias; which refers to those situations where the results influence the editor's decision, and editorial bias refers to those situations where factors related with authors or their environment influence the decision. DEVELOPMENT This paper includes an analysis of the situati...

Scientific Findings From Family Prevention Intervention Research

The critical role of family factors is acknowledged in virtually every psychological theory of substance abuse (Brook et al. 1990; Bry 1983; Catalano and Hawkins 1996; Dembo et al. 1979; Dishion et al. 1988; Elliott et al. 1989; Hawkins et al. 1992; Jessor 1993; Kandel and Davies 1992; Kaplan and Johnson 1992; Kellam et al. 1983; Kumpfer 1987; Newcomb and Bentler 1989; Oetting and Lynch 1993; W...