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I found this article quite interesting.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/02/cornells-food-and-brand-lab-has-a-major-problem.html
And of course, when there's shoddy research, there are often parallels with PACE:
Perhaps some of the people mentioned in the article might be interested in PACE?
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/02/cornells-food-and-brand-lab-has-a-major-problem.html
A Popular Diet-Science Lab Has Been Publishing Really Shoddy Research
The Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University publishes a huge amount of research about how people perceive, consume, and think about food. The lab covers subjects ranging from seasonal trends in weight gain to how happy music influences employees, and its director, the marketing and consumer behavior expert Brian Wansink, regularly touts his lab’s research during his frequent media appearances, focusing particularly on the behavioral science underlying people’s consumption habits.
And of course, when there's shoddy research, there are often parallels with PACE:
At first glance, the Food and Brand Lab is an exemplar of a wildly successful, publicly facing research institution dedicated to improving the real world through applied behavioral-science findings. Or it felt that way, at least, before Wansink published a strange blog post last month, which led to the subsequent discovery of 150 errors in just four of his lab’s papers, strong signs of major problems in the lab’s other research, and a spate of questions about the quality of the work that goes on there. Wansink, meanwhile, has refused to share data that could help clear the whole thing up.
Perhaps some of the people mentioned in the article might be interested in PACE?
Jordan ... Anaya is a computational biologist and independent researcher who created PrePubMed, a search engine for preprints, or draft versions of research that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed. Anaya has also created tools to help detect statistical anomalies in published research, and a friend of his asked him to apply one of those tools to the Wansink papers.
When he found some problems, he notified Nick Brown, a Ph.D. student at University Medical Center Groningen and “Self-appointed data police cadet,” as per his Twitter bio, whose data-sleuthing techniques power Anaya’s software. They teamed up with Tim van der Zee, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands
Andrew Gelman, a Columbia University statistician known as one of the smartest and most widely read skeptics of sexy but shoddy research findings — not to mention one of the most acerbic.