Author: John Borghi

The Significance of Managing Research Data

Some of the most influential research tools of the last century were created to ensure the quality of beer and extrapolate the results of agriculture experiments conducted in the English countryside. Though ostensibly about the placement of a decimal point, an ongoing debate about the application of these tools also provides a window for understanding… Read more »

Managing the new NIH requirements for clinical trials

As part of an effort to enhance transparency in biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have, over the last few years, announced a series of policy changes related to clinical trials. Though there is still a great deal of uncertainty about which studies do and do not qualify, these changes may have significant… Read more »

What We Talk About When We Talk About Reproducibility

At the very beginning of my career in research I conducted a study which involved asking college students to smile, frown, and then answer a series of questions about their emotional experience. This procedure was based on several classic studies which posited that, while feeling happy and sad makes people smile and frown, smiling and… Read more »