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New Report Packages Themes from Evidence Week

By Social Science Space | Published: November 12, 2018

"The question we must therefore ask is: are we all really working to the best available picture of what is going on in the world?” So asks a new report that summarizes the themes discussed in June's first-ever Evidence Week.

Posted in Bookshelf, Public Policy | Also tagged Evidence Week, Evidence-Based Policy | Leave a comment

Outlining the Many Beneficiaries of Evidence Week

By Tracey Brown | Published: June 23, 2018

The head of Sense about Science discusses the importance of public reasoning and accountability and why the first ever Evidence Week is a timely response to the changing demands of meeting those ideals, especially among politicians and policymakers.

Posted in Public Policy | Also tagged Evidence Week, Evidence-Based Policy | Leave a comment

Building a Foundation on Solid Evidence

By Ziyad Marar | Published: June 11, 2018

Ziyad Marar, the president of global publishing for SAGE, explains how SAGE's values and its mission "to build bridges to knowledge" overlap with the intent of the United Kingdom's Evidence Week, which takes place later this June.

Posted in Announcements, International Debates | Also tagged Evidence Week, Evidence-Based Policy | Leave a comment

Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

By Social Science Space | Published: October 6, 2015

Sense About Science's Tracey Browne last week delivered ‘The Ugly Truth’ – an examination of “the need to encourage accountability and support scrutiny over research” to an audience of academics, researchers, policymakers and learned societies.

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Sense About Science On the Value of Peer Review

By SAGE | Published: September 28, 2015

Peer Review Week begins today, a week to explore the role of peer review in addressing academic quality and rigor. Here, Sense About Science details why it feels it's important to explain peer review to the wider world.

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Making Sense of Screening: Public Expectations About Screening Still Don’t Match What Screening Programmes Can Deliver

By Sense About Science | Published: July 21, 2015

Misconceptions about how screening works, its limitations and possible harms are still being perpetuated by media stories and high profile cases, such as Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and emotive tabloid case studies of women under 25 dying from cervical cancer. Campaigners and celebrities still call for more screening: for more diseases, in more people and […]

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The Maddox Winners: Promoting Good Science Can Be a Contact Sport

By Lydia Le Page | Published: October 28, 2014

Having run the gantlet of online abuse and legal threats for their troubles, two top-notch science communicators have won this year's John Maddox Prize for the their evidence-based good work and dedication in the face of adversity.

Posted in Communication, Public Policy, Recognition | Also tagged The Conversation | Leave a comment

Start Making Sense: Sense About Science Coming to US

By Michael Todd | Published: September 11, 2014

The British-based nonprofit that helps the public understand the barrage of research data encountered routinely is starting a similar effort in the United States.

Posted in Communication, Public Policy | Also tagged Innumeracy, Journalism | Leave a comment

Diets on the Internet: You Might as Well Make Them Up

By Sense About Science | Published: August 1, 2014

Contradictory diet advice is everywhere – Katy Perry’s acupunctured fish, Matthew McConaughey and the caveman diet, Gwyneth Paltrow’s macrobiotic meals. It seems celebrities feel obliged to offer their opinions on what we should eat, leaving sound diet advice lost in bogus claims. Frustrated by fad diets, young scientists are calling on everyone to ask for […]

Posted in Career, Communication, International Debates, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Diet | Leave a comment

Peer Review and You: Dispatch from a Young Researcher

By Elizabeth Appiah-Kusi | Published: June 6, 2014

A young researcher offers her take on the peer review after attending a Sense About Science session on the subject.

Posted in Career, Public Engagement | Also tagged Peer Review | Leave a comment

100,000 for AllTrials by International Clinical Trials Day

By Sense About Science | Published: May 15, 2014

International Clinical Trials Day is on Tuesday May 20th but half of all clinical trials have never been published and some have not even been registered. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in these trials. If action is not taken urgently, information on what was done and what was found in trials could be lost […]

Posted in News, Research | Also tagged AllTrials, Clinical Trials, Policy, Transparency | Leave a comment

Nominations Sought For Evidence-Based Champion

By Sense About Science | Published: April 22, 2014

Sense About Science, in conjunction with Nature and the Kohn Foundation, is seeking to award an individual who has promoted sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest. The emphasis of the John Maddox Prize is on those who have faced difficulty or hostility in championing evidence. Nominations of active researchers who have yet to […]

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Tag: Sense about Science

New Report Packages Themes from Evidence Week

Outlining the Many Beneficiaries of Evidence Week

Building a Foundation on Solid Evidence

Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

Sense About Science On the Value of Peer Review

Making Sense of Screening: Public Expectations About Screening Still Don’t Match What Screening Programmes Can Deliver

The Maddox Winners: Promoting Good Science Can Be a Contact Sport

Start Making Sense: Sense About Science Coming to US

Diets on the Internet: You Might as Well Make Them Up

Peer Review and You: Dispatch from a Young Researcher

100,000 for AllTrials by International Clinical Trials Day

Nominations Sought For Evidence-Based Champion

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