FLICKR, SA_KU_RAFacing up to a growing crisis of confidence over unreliable results, a group of psychologists have this week launched an new organization that aims to make the field more transparent and results more trustworthy, as well as to encourage other scientific fields to open up in a similar manner, reported ScienceInsider.
With an initial grant of $5.25 million from private supporters, the Charlottesville, Virginia-based Center for Open Science (COS) plans to “build tools to improve the scientific process and promote accurate, transparent findings in scientific research,” according to a press release. Its co-director is Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia and leader of the Reproducibility Project, which will attempt to replicate every study from three psychology journals published in 2008 to see how the findings stand up.
The center’s main project, the Open Science Framework, is a website that will allow scientists to share every part of their work, including the stuff that usually doesn’t see the light of day, like failed experiments. “It doesn’t mean that everyone will look at everything I ...
