Irreproducibility of Published Research

Date: 

Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Ave.

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This workshop is part of the Research, Rigor & Reproducibility series
Speaker: Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine, HMS
Description: Research publications will contain errors, despite procedures designed to avoid them. Fortunately, a fundamental attribute of science is its capacity for “self-correction”, through published ideas and claims being reviewed and tested by others. But today we face claims that published bioscience research is far less reproducible than anyone previously imagined. This workshop will challenge participants to seriously consider alternatives to our current approach to conducting and publishing research.

Upcoming workshops in this series:
5/4/18: "Experimental Design in Research" with David Glass, Executive Director, Muscle Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and Lecturer, Department of Cell Biology, HMS 
6/6/18: "Understanding the Data Lifecycle for Research Success" with Countway Library's Julie Goldman and P. Scott Lapinski, MS