Trusting the Literature? P-Hacking, Fraud, and How to Read Research Safely

Joe Simmons is coming to the Eric P. Newman Education Center on Thursday, October 29, for a talk titled Trusting the Literature? P-Hacking, Fraud, and How to Read Research Safely. He's a professor, researcher, and author at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he co-authors Data Colada, the blog where he and his colleagues break down the messy side of how research actually gets done.

Simmons spends his time on research methods, with a particular focus on spotting and fixing the practices that lead to fraud, and he studies the psychology of judgment and decision-making. This session focuses on fraud in the medical literature, so it's geared toward anyone who reads scientific papers and wants to know how to tell what's reliable and what isn't. If you're in the field, there's a practical side to it too: the seminar counts toward Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credit for those who attend in person for the whole thing.

The talk is sponsored by Jay Piccirillo, MD, FACS, the TL1 Program, and the Otolaryngology R25 Program. It's held at the EPNEC Auditorium, inside the Eric P. Newman Education Center at 320 S Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, on the first floor. If you can't make it in person, there's a Zoom option available.

Lunch is served starting at 11:30 AM, and the talk itself runs from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.