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Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

4 December 2019

A productivity-driven funding culture has allowed sloppy science to flourish – but now some researchers are fighting back, says Clare Wilson

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The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

10 October 2017

Arguments over the causes of the gender gap in STEM jobs rage on. It's not due to hormones or innate brain differences, says Lise Eliot

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