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Critical Metascience

Mark Rubin

Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience.

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Self-Correction in Science, Preregistration as Cheap Talk, and a Critical Analysis of the Case for Preregistration

Self-Correction in Science

Douglas Allchin’s recent article asks “When is science ‘self-correcting’?”. He answers this question by analysing several historical cases. He concludes that science is self-correcting when there is active (ong...

7 days ago
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Call for Papers on Effect Heterogeneity, Proposal for Special Issue on Psychological Theories, and the Metascience 2027 Conference

Call for Papers on Effect Heterogeneity

Marie-Ann Sengewald, Steffi Pohl, and Marcel van Assen are guest editing a topical issue of Zeitschrift für Psychologie titled “Systematic Meta-Research for Examining and Understanding Effect Heter...

12 days ago
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Preregistration: Deviations, Concerns, and Ignorance

Deviations

A new working paper about mass reproducibility in psychological science by Brodeur, Baki, & Fazio finds: “84% of preregistered articles deviate from their pre-analysis plan, and nearly half of these deviations go unacknowledge...

17 days ago
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Transparency, Replication Rate Targets, and Direct Replications

Transparency

Stephen John (2026) considers the complexities of “Transparency in Science” in a chapter in the new open access book: “Routledge Handbook of Values and Science.” He argues that “we might gain from being more transparent abou...

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Is Replication Rare? 🔸 Registered Report Timelines 🔸 Open Science and Trust 🔸 P-Hacking and Publication Bias

Is Replication Rare?

Tim Rakow recently published work that “investigates the claim that psychological scientists have published only a small quantity of replication research (Chambers, 2017; Ioannidis, 2012).” He found that 19% of the...

2 months ago
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