A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Scholars are debating the results of an effort to assess hundreds of papers’ credibility. Where some see failure and cause ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Given the animal origins of past pandemics, as well as the many recent cases of disease in people linked to animals — such as anthrax, Middle East respiratory syndrome and avian influenza virus — it ...

A forum on Skills and Knowledge for Innovation and Societal Impact will be held at McMaster University on Oct. 12-13, organized by The/La Collaborative and the Canadian Science Policy Centre. Future ...