How trustworthy is evidence based research as applied in the natural sciences and the social sciences?

In medicine, I think evidence-based research and - crucial, this - evidence-based practice is quite robust. Insofar as social scientific veracity is concerned, the wide range of variables does...

08 September 2017 8,085 6 View

How can anyone worth a million dollars or so in countries where the poor earn less than a living wage call themselves socialists?

04 May 2017 3,537 13 View

Is the concept of "wicked problem" semantically adequate?

A few years ago, I reviewed the manuscript of a good article in which "wicked problems" were of central concern. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to figure out why the term "wicked"...

08 September 2016 2,397 1 View

Is investment in Big Tobacco bereft of all morals?

07 August 2016 254 3 View

Is the concept, psycho-somatic, an oxymoron?

If the brain is anatomy and the mind is physiology (debatable, of course) then surely the diagnosis of psychosomatic disorders is an oxymoron. This forces the question of whether or not mind can...

07 August 2016 3,137 35 View

Is it justifiable to use data for moral purposes if the data collection is immoral?

What comes to mind for me here is the debate on the use of arguably (?) life-saving medical data collected by Nazi doctors in concentration camps.

07 August 2016 8,425 73 View

Is predictability of future trends feasible in social science?

Popper did not think so. However, I think that social scientific predictions can be plausible if long established prior and contemporary trends (income inequality as a predictor of variable...

06 July 2016 2,364 6 View

How, in detail please, is the RG score calculated?

Could anyone please explain to me why, for the past month or so, even though my reads keep on rising, my RG score has dropped by - if my estimate is correct - from around 35. 2 to about 33....

05 June 2016 7,539 1 View

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04 May 2016 7,522 2 View

Is it tenable to defend an ethical principle - e.g. social justice - through intellectual argumentation?

There are those who argue that intellectual argumentation should be objective and, in that regard, value-free. I personally disagree but I recognize that my "opponents" have a point. Or do they?

02 March 2016 1,031 2 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

How to write a scientific report?

We are analysing scientific reports at University in great detail, so I wanted to find a scientific report about how to write a scientific report. Including detail such as what information to put...

02 March 2021 7,602 4 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

How to Balance Bench work with Reading and Writing?

I am a second-year grad student. I am finding it difficult finding time to read literature and write (things like qualifying exam, thesis, grants). I find myself so busy with bench work that I...

01 March 2021 3,325 4 View

Which software is better to write systematic review paper?

We have seen some authors use some software to write review paper. As obvious, the study of all published papers concerning our studying field is not possible and these software can help us to...

27 February 2021 6,296 1 View

How can we raise the figure when we writing a paper with Latex ?

Hi, everyone. I'm a starter to write a paper by Latex. But I have some difficulty using it. I'm writing the paper with 2 columns. And, there is one figure that occupies the 2 both-sides. I want to...

26 February 2021 3,738 3 View