/oss/taxonomy/term/4789/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking/puppies-can-help-explain-how-scientists-get-things-wrong <p>If you have an interest in scientific research, you may have heard a weird term that sounds traumatizing from a urological perspective: <em>p</em>-hacking. Apparently, you’ve read, some scientists use <em>p</em>-hacking to get the results they want. And this “hack,” this way of gaining unauthorized access to glory, revolves around a mysterious entity known as the <em>p</em>-value.</p> Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:25:25 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9071 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health-general-science/humans-sometimes-get-way-science <p>I never expected to read the word “glooped” in a BBC article. An<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56556806"> investigation by the BBC programme Panorama</a> recently revealed troubling behaviour on the part of some technicians at one of the major UK COVID-19 testing laboratories. These laboratories receive the swabs that went up the nose and down the throat of potential coronavirus hosts. Technicians there must extract the genetic material present and try to amplify coronavirus-specific sequences using a test known as PCR to check for the presence of the virus.</p> Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:50:04 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8676 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/when-negative-doesnt-really-mean-negative-why-quality-matters-just-much-quantity-when-testing-covid <p> </p> <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in</em><span> </span><a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/when-a-negative-doesnt-really-mean-negative-why-quality-matters-just-as-much-as-quantity-when-testing-for-covid-19/">The Skeptical Inquirer<span>.</span></a></p> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:04:36 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8651 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/looking-forward-new-ways-test-covid-19 <p> </p> <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in</em><span> </span><a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-looking-forward-to-new-ways-to-test-for-covid-19/wcm/0ccf3f78-72aa-4503-a432-6781bd8bdc6b/">The Montreal Gazette<span>.</span></a></p> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:24:29 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 8400 at /oss