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Controversies

September 2022

  • A cast of Toumaï’s cranium

    Oldest human or just another ape? Row erupts over 7m-year-old fossil

    Remains from Chad desert provoke rancorous dispute over whether species was earliest to walk upright

November 2018

  • Catherine Bennett

    Enough of the neurosexist bilge. It’s not all pink and blue when it comes to our brains

    Catherine Bennett
    There’s no genetic reason women should be disadvantaged in the workplace – unless someone is looking for it

August 2018

  • Psychologists face a unique challenge: we use our minds to study the mind. The field is now in a better place to be able to do that robustly.

    Head quarters
    Open science is now the only way forward for psychology

  • The debate around screen time needs to be more measured, and grounded in a strong evidence base.

    Head quarters
    Three problems with the debate around screen time

February 2018

  • Bowl of fresh tomato soup. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.<br>B9CA9Y Bowl of fresh tomato soup. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

    Head quarters
    Mindless eating: is there something rotten behind the research?

    A storm of retractions, corrections, data irregularities and controversy over duplicate publication are destroying the credibility of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab. It’s time for the university to be open about what’s going on
  • The WHO needs better quality evidence before drawing conclusions about gaming addiction.

    Head quarters
    Why it's too soon to classify gaming addiction as a mental disorder

    Concerns over the addictive properties of video games are reasonable but there is a lack of rigorous research behind the WHO’s expected classification
  • Lucy Foulkes asked a simple question: How can you be a productive academic without working long hours?

    Head quarters
    How to be an academic without working 60 hours a week

    A Twitter argument about how many hours university academics should work prompted Lucy Foulkes to seek out advice for early career researchers

November 2017

  • A new study shows a correlation between social media use and depression and suicide in US teens. But the picture is more complicated than that.

    Head quarters
    When it comes to claims about screen time we need more sense and less hype

    A new study claims a link between screen time and increased rates of depression and suicide in US teens. But what do the data actually say? And how can we move towards a more rational debate about digital technology?

May 2017

  • Psychology must reform to survive, and if it reforms properly it can thrive.

    Head quarters
    From protoscience to proper science: The path ahead for reforming psychology

    Transforming psychology into a mature science will require an uncompromising commitment to robustness and transparency. No exceptions, no special pleading, and no excuses

March 2017

  • Hands by a plate of salad

    Head quarters
    Fresh concerns raised over academic conduct of major US nutrition and behaviour lab

    With eleven publications already under scrutiny, new evidence emerges of duplicate publication and data irregularities in the work of Professor Brian Wansink

January 2017

  • Context and content may be more important factors than time alone when it comes to technology use during childhood

    Head quarters
    Screen time guidelines need to be built on evidence, not hype

    Open letter: There is an important debate to be had about screen time, but we need quality research and evidence to support it

September 2016

  • 3D fMRI image of the brain

    Head quarters
    Has a software bug really called decades of brain imaging research into question?

    Over the summer, some headlines suggested that a study highlighting issues in the way we analyse fMRI data renders the technique irretrievably flawed. But the reality is much more nuanced

February 2016

  • What we actually know about the effects of violent video games on behaviour isn't as clear-cut as many think.

    Head quarters
    Is there an association between video games and aggression?

    Pete Etchells: Our new study on the associations between playing shoot-em-ups at a young age and aggression in adolescence highlights a nuanced link, surprising no one that actually plays video games

December 2015

  • Tim Hunt with Wife Mary Collins Starting a new life in Japan at their home in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

    Tim Hunt and Mary Collins: ‘We’re not being chased out of the country. Our new life’s an adventure’

    Six months after a speech wrecked Tim Hunt’s career, the Nobel laureate and his wife Mary Collins tell of her top-level new job and their future in Japan

October 2015

  • battenberg cake

    Head quarters
    Replication frustration: what stops experiments being reliably repeated?

    Pete Etchells: Replication is the bedrock of science. But what happens when a scientist can’t – or won’t – share the experimental materials that allow it?

August 2015

  • dowsing

    Head quarters
    Bad vibrations: what's the evidence for geopathic stress?

  • Bad science … Baroness Susan Greenfield: neuroscientist, broadcaster – and now novelist.

    Head quarters
    'Needs less shock and more substance': Susan Greenfield's tech claims criticised

June 2015

  • Tim Hunt with his wife Mary Collins

    Tim Hunt: ‘I’ve been hung out to dry. They haven’t even bothered to ask for my side of affairs’

    In an exclusive interview Tim Hunt and his wife Professor Mary Collins tell how their lives fell apart after his quip about women in science went viral on Twitter
  • Charles Robert Darwin, the scientist behind the theory of evolution

    Brain flapping
    Tim Hunt shows why old men should be banned from science

    Dean Burnett: Tim Hunt is right that science should be more segregated, but the evidence suggests it’s old men who should be excluded
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    Tim Hunt sorry but stands by comments on women scientists – audio

    Nobel laureate Tim Hunt apologises for recent comments suggesting female scientists were a distraction in the lab and easily offended

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