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SUMMARY:Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers - Professor Marcus
  Munafo\, Professor of Biological Psychology\, School of Experimental Psyc
 hology\, University of Bristol
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DTEND:20130208T180000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:There have been a number of high profile cases of academic fra
 ud recently. However\, a more insidious threat to the integrity of science
  is the extent to which distortions of scientific best practice increases 
 the likelihood that published research findings are in fact false. I will 
 provide evidence for a range of systemic problems within science\, such as
  flexibility in the analysis of data\, selective reporting of study result
 s\, publication bias against null results\, influence of vested (e.g.\, fi
 nancial) interests\, and distorted incentive structures. I will show that 
 under some plausible and quite conservative assumptions\, it is likely tha
 t the majority of published findings are in fact false. A number of strate
 gies for improving the situation will be discussed.\n \nMarcus Munafò is 
 Professor of Biological Psychology in the School of Experimental Psycholog
 y at the University of Bristol\, and Director of the Tobacco and Alcohol R
 esearch Group (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/research/brain/targ/). He 
 was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford\, before moving to the Un
 iversity of Southampton to complete an MSc in Health Psychology and a PhD.
  Following this\, he returned to the University of Oxford\, as a postdocto
 ral fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and later t
 he Department of Clinical Pharmacology. In 2004-2005 he spent 6 months as 
 a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In March 2005 took
  up a tenured position at the University of Bristol.\n \n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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