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When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
If researchers pose the right questions about transformation, this can lead to better answers, stronger policies and, ultimately, real change.
Is the risk of a criminal conviction enough to deter scientists from publishing bogus research findings?
There is broad acknowledgement that the way science is taught and practised in Africa is not socially inclusive.
Many centres were set up in Australian universities to take advantage of China’s rising importance, but without ongoing funding they might be subject to interference from external donors.
The recent NHMRC funding announcement has renewed criticism about how medical research is funded in Australia. Is the system fair? Or is it stacked against some researchers?
Food, drug and other companies often sponsor research in the hope it might produce results favourable to their products. How can we ensure such research remains independent?
South Africa has made remarkable progress in redressing its historically and mainly race based deprivations but a lot still needs to be done.
Without research on primates, we wouldn’t be able to understand the human brain – or repair it.
Trials into the effectiveness of drugs and treatments struggle to recruit enough participants, yet we rely on their results anyway.
Research looking at evidence-based teaching in higher education tends to be based more on anecdotes than on large, robust and peer-reviewed data.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
The REF has turned academic research from a vocation to pursue knowledge and scholarship, to a game of ‘hits’ in top journals.
People have always known science would advance faster with various incentives and rewards. As modern experimental science took off, these took the form of gifts and favors to and from wealthy elites.
Money can corrupt. But that doesn’t mean all types of funding – or intentions – are the same.
Random clown sightings don’t make everyone laugh. A psychologist who has studied creepiness explains why clowns are especially adept at making us squirm.
There is no such thing as ‘free higher education’. Someone has to pay. And the reality is that low, or no tuition fees benefit middle and high-income families.
We shouldn’t scoff at the Facebook founder’s goal of eradicating disease.
Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all
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Darren Saunders speaks with Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about bad medical research reporting, and how greater transparency in research practices could improve public trust in science and medicine.
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Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Research Education and Development, La Trobe University
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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