Next steps after airing disagreement on a scientific issue with policy implications: a meta-analysis, multi-lab replication and adversarial collaboration

BMC Biology

Commentary

Malgorzata Lagisz¹  Shinichi Nakagawa² 

[1] Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia;Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia;Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 904-0495, Onna, Japan;

关键词: Replication crisis;    Null hypothesis significance testing;    Statistics;    Team science;    Open science;    Reproducibility;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12915-023-01567-5

 received in 2023-03-15, accepted in 2023-03-16,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Canadian policymakers are interested in determining whether farmed Atlantic salmon, frequently infected with Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), may threaten wild salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. A relevant work has been published in BMC Biology by Polinksi and colleagues, but their conclusion that PRV has a negligible impact on the energy expenditure and respiratory performance of sockeye salmon is disputed by Mordecai and colleagues, whose re-analysis is presented in a correspondence article. So, what is the true effect and what should follow this unresolved dispute? We suggest a ‘registered multi-lab replication with adversaries’.

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