Latest posts by Nagarjun
When Science News Loses the Error Bars
A scientific paper usually comes with uncertainty attached. Confidence intervals. Error bars. Alternative explanations. Methodological limitations. Cautious language. Then the finding begins travelling. Paper → press release → headline → social media. And somewhere along the journey, the uncertainty...
Posted on 1 November 2026 | 6:10 am
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Genetics and Psychology Took Different Roads Toward Reliable Science
Talk about reproducibility often collapses science into one giant category. But the replication problem faced by a psychologist studying human behaviour is not identical to the problem faced by a geneticist conducting a genome-wide association study. Different fields have different sources of noise,...
Posted on 31 October 2026 | 6:07 am
Read postWhat If a Journal Accepted Your Experiment Before You Knew the Result?
Scientific publishing usually happens backwards. Researchers conduct a study. They discover the result. Then journals decide whether the study is interesting enough to publish. That arrangement creates an obvious temptation. Interesting outcomes become valuable. Null outcomes become disappointing. W...
Posted on 30 October 2026 | 6:04 am
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