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Democrats are facing a painful reckoning over Kamala Harris’s drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, as shock gives way to anger and recrimination in the aftermath of a devastating repudiation. Lawmakers and strategists looking for someone to blame for Tuesday’s wipeout have so far been more likely to target […]
A retracted paper’s backstory illustrates the challenges of the technique called preregistration.Credit: Getty The retraction of a high-profile paper1 that tested ways to improve the soundness of scientific studies has highlighted the challenges of such ‘reproducibility’ research. The retracted paper’s authors include some of the titans in the field. In the study, published in Nature […]