Shifting Sands: Keeping Count of Government Science Series

The Shifting Sands project examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governments by different federal agencies. The first report on PM2.5 Regulation focuses on irreproducible research in the field of environmental epidemiology, which informs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) policies and regulations. The second report focuses on Food Frequency Questionnaire and irreproducible research in the field of nutritional epidemiology, which informs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies and regulations.

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Report I

Keeping Count of Government Science: P-Value Plotting, P-Hacking, and PM2.5 Regulation

Shifting Sands: Unsound Science and Unsafe Regulation examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This fir......

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Report II

Flimsy Food Findings

Shifting Sands: Flimsy Food Findings examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This second report focuse......

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Report III

The Confounded Errors of Public Health Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shifting Sands: Confounded Errors focuses on failures by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to consider empirical evidence avail......

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