Writers constantly tell us about mavericks whose genius overturned the status quo. Their stories aren't just wrong, they're dangerous.

A project to replicate studies it found problematic is running into its own replication problems and not following experimental designs.

Peer review and editorial input at PLOS ONE are in trouble and scientists are very, very upset.

Over-quantification and commodification of research is encouraging bad behavior and slowing down scientists.

Michael LaCour's groundbreaking study on how just talking to an LGBT person could change homophobic attitudes was a fraud. But why did it take so longer to uncover it and what does it mean for other researchers?

The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.

Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.

Don't worry about retractions or bad papers being discovered by scientists trying to build on and replicate each other's work. That's exactly how science advances.

Publishing code used in scientific studies sounds like a good idea, but its implementation and consequences need a lot more thought first...

A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?

The Journal of Cosmology is closing its doors. Bloggers relying on clicks from picking apart deeply flawed studies are devastated.

It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.

Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...

Got an idea the scientific community isn't listening to? Forget more research and peer review! Go to the people with a conspiracy theory!