In service of an arbitrary threshold, p-values often lead researchers to make poorly supported claims and ignore interesting but insignificant results, scientists argue.

The cofounder of the EQUATOR Network devoted his career to boosting transparency and improving the quality of clinical research.

The correspondence points to routine data-massaging at a high-profile lab.

Despite an overall decrease in the number of US cancer deaths, some cancer types are on the rise, and disparities remain between genders and ethnicities.

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This year's life sciences salary survey turned up some interesting trends in the U.S. and around the world.

In the 1930s, parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine aimed to use scientific methods to confirm the existence of extrasensory perception, but faced criticisms of dubious analyses and irreproducible results.

An analysis of the widely used technique calls into question the validity of 40,000 studies.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to boost the statistical sensitivity of this type of clinical studies.