Questions tagged [research]
Questions about the existence or non-existence of specific research and publications. Use this tag if you do not seek to validate the correctness of the claims in the (alleged) research or publication in question, but only to inquire the existence of the research or publication.
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Is replacing a bad habit with a good one more effective than stopping the bad habit alone?
Replacing bad habits with good ones is commonplace advice. However, I have seen this claim repeated on reputable sites, suggesting that there is evidence behind it, but no evidence is provided:
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Is Leon Eisenberg the "inventor" (or the "scientific father") of ADHD?
Related to this Q it's pretty easy to confirm from the meme the part that claim that Leon Eisenberg said what he said about ADHD, using e.g. his Wikipedia page where Der Spiegel is given as source for ...
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Did Kyiv National Linguistic University publish a map showing that only a few Ukrainians (in the West of the country) speak Ukrainian at home?
Various Russian & other sources give this map (also on P.SE, but probably the most notable of these might be https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/kto-boretsya-s-kem-v-ukraine-i-pochemu/)
Was that ...
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Do most scholars agree upon four historical facts about Jesus of Nazareth?
In this article, William Lane Craig claims:
Fortunately, Christianity, as a religion rooted in history, makes claims that can in important measure be investigated historically. Suppose, then, that we ...
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Are today's vegetables so much nutrient poor compared to vegetables from many years ago? [duplicate]
On the web there is plenty of material like this one claiming that the vegetables we buy today are much less nutritious than vegetables from 40/70/100 years ago.
8 oranges today have the same ...
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Are you at increased risk of complications when receiving a vaccine shot/booster after you have had a symptomatic infection of Covid? [closed]
Someone has told me that there is a study/studies that exist that showed that getting a vaccine booster after having a symptomatic infection of covid, increases your risk for complications.
I have ...
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Did WHO publish a bulletin stating that COVID-19 is “equivalent in lethality to seasonal flu”?
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi said that the WHO published a bulletin stating that COVID-19 is "equivalent in lethality to seasonal flu" in October 2020 in this video. I linked the video so that it ...
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When the WHO/CDC/NIH recommended wearing cloth masks, did they cite any scientific paper supporting their effectiveness?
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons asserts that cloth masks are not a way to meaningfully protect someone against COVID-19 nor against source-control. According to their ...
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Empirical evidence that foster children are better off with relatives than non-relative foster parents? [closed]
I'm looking into foster care policy and I'm coming across an empirical problem. There is a broad consensus that finding a relative of a foster child (often referred to as kin) leads to empirically ...
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Academic study on the proportion of hearing "no" versus "yes" among toddlers
I vaguely remember a study claiming that children heard the word "no" a lot more often than the word "yes". I could not find it today; I did find this claim
A UCLA survey from a few years ago, ...
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Did Fauci outsource gain-of-function research to China during a US moratorium?
A Times of Israel blog writes:
Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research—altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and ...
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Did Alfred Kinsey sexually abuse children for his studies?
The following is an interesting question posted in Psychology.SE which was closed as off-topic. It was not migrated here so I thought I would ask it.
An article at https://web.archive.org/web/...
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Does the Lancet spend $5000 to cover all the costs of publishing an article?
We can read here:
An article-processing charge of $5000 will be levied to cover the costs of review, editing, layout, and online hosting and archiving, if accepted.
This is too expensive for me, ...
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Did The Lancet publish an account of a woman who did not age?
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion, claimed in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, Ch. 8, p. 245:1-15:
The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
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Are there fewer than 500 people researching antibiotic resistance?
The emergence of anti-microbial resistance in the bugs that cause infectious diseases has been called the biggest threat to modern medicine. For example:
England’s chief medical officer has warned of ...
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Is divorce caused (or influenced by) genetics?
From Independent headline:
Divorce does run in the family and could be genetic, researchers have suggested.
... the study – carried out by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Lund University ...
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Was Obama's JAMA paper the first academic journal article authored by a sitting president?
I have read a few sources claiming that Obama's JAMA paper published this month was the first academic journal article authored by a sitting president. Is that true?
Example:
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Does science advance "one funeral at a time"? [closed]
In an article in the Guardian about how ideas in nutrition science have advanced and have influenced dietary advice to the public, the authors quote Max Planck as having said, famously:
“A new ...
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Which typically comes first: basic science or technological advance?
Matt Ridley claims in The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (and also in an article in the Wall Street Journal):
In his book he argues:
Again and again, once you examine the history of ...
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What does science say about GM cow research in New Zealand? [closed]
I saw this article while perusing the internet:
http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/10/23/gm-cow-experiments-in-new-zealand-show-disastrous-results/#.VipkId_BzRZ
Looking through the sources, they ...
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Asch's Conformity Experiment (1951) ; different sources have different results
In Asch's conformity experiment, a simple test was given to a room full of subjects. Secretly, only one subject was being tested and the rest of the subjects were confederates who all gave the same ...
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Does government funded R&D promote economic growth?
In Matt Ridley's The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge he repeats a claim originally made by Terence Kealey (my emphasis):
In 2003, the OECD published a paper on ‘sources of growth in ...
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