Talk & Discussion

Are rigorous methods, transparency, reproducibility, innovation, and/or usefulness features of good science?

Prof. Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis: Stanford University (Medicine -Stanford Prevention Research Center, Epidemiology and Population Health and Biomedical Data Science)

When: 11. June 2025, 6 pm
Where: HS 22 Kupferbau, 72074 Tübingen

Abstract:

Are rigorous methods, transparency, reproducibility, innovation, and/or usefulness features of good science?” and here is an abstract: “There is debate about what aspects of research practices should be improved and how in the setting of research reform efforts. A central question is what these research reform efforts should aim to achieve, at what cost, and what cost-benefit. In this regard, it is important to discuss whether methodological rigor, transparency (e.g. data sharing, protocol availability, statistical analysis plans, or registration), reproducibility (the ability to corroborate results in multiple studies), innovation (a concept that may be difficult to define and measure in the short term but which may become more clear at hindsight) and/or usefulness (which also takes much time to document) are hallmarks of good science. Do we need all of these hallmarks, or only some of them, and if so, in what combinations and in which scientific fields and settings?