Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-28 Thread Peter Hoyt
This would be great for a class I have planned in "Critical Thinking". Our grad students really lack confidence in their abilities and need to know that if it walks like a duck, and everybody else thinks it walks like a duck... -peter On 01/27/2016 9:30 AM, Jeremy Gray wrote: Retraction

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-27 Thread Jeremy Gray
Retraction watch is a pretty good resource for this type of thing: They have categories for "doing the right thing" - http://retractionwatch.com/category/doing-the-right-thing/ where a researcher corrects their own error, as well as data issues category, which covers many of the computing errors -

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:12:22AM -0500, Erik Bray wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D. > wrote: > > Titus and Greg, > > Do you have a list of these cases on the web, or is this an informal thing > > between you two? I'd be interested in

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
It last made its appearance here: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745 4th paragraph down, starting with "We believe"... Greg probably has a list in some Google Doc that he can no longer find. If I can find the time, maybe I'll write up a quick blog post

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-27 Thread Erik Bray
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D. wrote: > Titus and Greg, > Do you have a list of these cases on the web, or is this an informal thing > between you two? I'd be interested in seeing the list. I used to use the example of the Reinhardt & Rogoff

[Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi all, for many years, Greg and I and others have been collecting "mea culpas" on research failures due to computational mistakes -- here's one that caught my eye the other day: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/there-was-no-vast-migration-of-eurasians-into-africa/ Reads to me like a workflow system

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-26 Thread Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D.
Titus and Greg, Do you have a list of these cases on the web, or is this an informal thing between you two? I'd be interested in seeing the list. Best, Joshua > On Jan 26, 2016, at 09:36, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > Hi all, > > for many years, Greg and I and others have

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-26 Thread Davide Del Vento
Ditto about the interest on this list of cases. I'll add that besides a workflow system which would have helped (but not necessarily panacea, errors could be made there too), an open data reproducible paper would have helped even more: with all those skeptics, someone would have tried to re-run

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-26 Thread Neil Chue Hong (SSI)
> I'll add that besides a workflow system which would have helped (but > not necessarily panacea, errors could be made there too), an open data > reproducible paper would have helped even more: with all those > skeptics, someone would have tried to re-run the analysis seeking for > errors, and

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

2016-01-26 Thread Lex Nederbragt
Is this story on the list? Happened to land (again) in my Twitter feed... https://www.thewinnower.com/papers/1052-avoid-having-to-retract-your-genomics-analysis Lex On 26 Jan 2016, at 17:57, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) wrote: >> I'll add that besides a workflow system