EVALUATING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

On the rigors of scientific research (or not?)
Two Doc’s Talk–Can we Trust Medical Research?
Publishing: The Peer Review Problem (from Nature, 2014)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver “Scientific Studies” (HBO, 2016)
FiveThirtyEight RoundTable on Scientific Scandals (FiverThirtyEight, podcast + article)
How to Tell Good Studies from Bad
Failure is Moving Science Forward
Science isn’t Broken
Reading about the embattled trachea surgeon Dr. Macchiarini 

On P-Hacking
It’s Time to Stop Misusing P-Values
Not Even Scientists can Explain P-Values

On the Reproducibility Crisis
Failure is Moving Science Forward
Reproducability Initiative

Towards a more rigorous scientific method
Who Will Debunk the Debunkers 
Retraction Watch
PubPeer

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES: AN OVERVIEW

Annotated Bib Check List

INDIVIDUAL CONTENT OF ANNOTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Annotations offer a good summary that avoids excessive quotation information is condensed and clear (main topic is stated–some details given but annotation should be overwhelmed by information)
• jargon and other medical/heath terminology is appropriately defined
• citations are clearly written using a consistent format that includes all pertinent information

HOLISTICALLY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Limited redundancies (more variation in types of articles–removal of duplicate articles. (some broad overviews + specific studies (different levels of studies)
• Credibility of research: sources are evaluated: examining the researchers and publishing circumstances
• Articles relate to your larger research questionSample Annotated Bibliographies:
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RESEARCH & WRITING AT UNC

Our Clinical Psychology department research on social media and mental health

Research at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center shows how a cancer-causing virus causes cancer by provoking cell growth and protein production prematurely.

UNC Doctors study the frequency of aggressive end-of-life treatment plans and its toll on human suffering.

CHANL: Chapel Hill Analytical & Nanofabrication Lab

Visualizing Science & Finding Good Links

Good Visuals:

CDC’s Public Health Image Library
VisualDx: (point-of-care visual diagnostic decision support system that includes more than 17,000 medical images and illustrations)
Flickr Commons
Pixabay
The Getty Open Content
USGS: U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Archive:
-Maps, Imagery, and Publication
-Multimedia Gallery
NIH: US National Library of Medicine
British Library’s Flickr Commons
Victorian Shakespeare Illustration Archive
Van Go Museum French Printmaking Archive
Calisphere
Nasa Images
Graphics Fairy

Good Links:

Popular Science
Nasa
Discovery
Live Science
Science Daily
Scientific America
Space
Science Magazine
Smithsonian
Tree Hugger