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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old arguments are resurfacing that can sow confusion. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...
Nature

The case for rejecting the amyloid cascade hypothesis

For over 100 years, scientists have recognized a strong correlation between the clinical signs of late-life dementia and the presence in brain of abnormal protein deposits. In AD, these deposits ...
JSTOR Daily

Posterior Probability of Discovery and Expected Rate of Discovery for Multiple Hypothesis Testing and High Throughput Assays

Technologies of measuring millions of quantities at once have been rapidly developed and used in biological and biomedical research and other fields in the past decade. Yet a key issue remains ...
The Conversation

Why hypothesis and significance tests ask the wrong questions

Rob Herbert does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Conversation

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

Mark Louie Ramos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Times Union

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Louie Ramos, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Should you believe the findings of ...