Timothy Huie 200 word summary – John Arnold Made a Fortune at Enron. Now He’s Declared War on Bad Science

Brian Nosek was a rising researcher and he struggled with funding for his research as well as his final product of his research because he worried about the ways in which the standard of new findings needed to have like, attention grabbers or the validity of the finding. In this belief, Nosek started a study on validity of past researches and findings, because of this particular goal of trying to question previous published findings, funding was scarce. However, Nosek received funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Because of this, Nosek and his fellow researchers verified the findings of about 40% pf the studies. Nosek was not the only one the Arnold foundation was funding. John Ioannddis, who published “Why Most published Research findings are false” or Ben Goldacre who researched against pharmaceutical companies, tricked the public into paying for unessential services to name a couple.  This all in all sparked back lash on the Arnold foundation. Next, Arnold came about believing in questioning the validity of findings. After all that the Arnold foundation has progressed, reformations like implementing statisticians to review papers, new requirements for data sharing and plans for teaching researchers new and old about the need for findings to be able to be reproduced. Lastly, the article ends off on the question of if Arnold’s affect on the whole publication process and findings because of how deep the roots of the system are, may or may not be able to change.

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