Replication Crisis

April 2025

• Apr 12, 2025ConceptsThe History of Psychology: From Philosophy to SciencePsychology became a science in 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt opened the first experimental laboratory.18 MIN6.8k

August 2024

• Aug 27, 2024ExplainersExploring the Fallibility of Published Research FindingsJohn Ioannidis's 2005 mathematical argument, the replication crisis in psychology and cancer biology, p-hacking, publication bias, and what good...17 MIN4.7k

July 2024

• Jul 15, 2024ExplainersHow the Scientific Method WorksThe scientific method is not a checklist: it is a set of interlocking practices designed to minimize self-deception.17 MIN2.7k

May 2024

• May 1, 2024CultureWhat Is the History of Science? Key Milestones and EvolutionA survey of the history of science from Babylonian astronomy and Greek natural philosophy through the Islamic Golden Age, the Scientific...19 MIN4.9k

December 2022

• Dec 17, 2022ConceptsThe Scientific Method: Process and Practical ApplicationsThe scientific method is a systematic process for testing ideas against evidence. Learn about hypothesis, falsifiability, p-values, the replication...20 MIN6.6k

July 2022

• Jul 19, 2022ConceptsWhat Is Peer Review and Its Importance in SciencePeer review is science's quality control system. Learn how it works, where it fails, and what reforms like preprints and post-publication review...17 MIN5.2k