Reproducibility, Validity, and Integrity in Scholarly Research: Questions Seeking Answers.
Carl Taswell · Brainiacs Journal of Brain Imaging And Computing Sciences · 2024
CommentaryOur Guardians Conferences continue to address the general theme of reproducibility, validity, and integrity when conducting and communicating research while avoiding common fallacies and pitfalls in the relevant field of experimental science.Invited speakers at Guardians 2024, Maggie Mulqueen (2024), Philip Koch (2024), Natalie Burke (2024), Joshua Rubin (2024), and Olivia Sagan (2024), addressed the 2024 focus theme of people talking to people with civility, courtesy, tolerance, and respect.We honored Peter Ash, as our 2024 Guardian of Truth and Integrity in recognition of his extraordinary role model example of leadership and advocacy for people talking to people in order to promote healthy communities saving the lives of children with albinism.Next year at Guardians 2025, we will continue the conversation on people talking to people, but refocused on scholars talking to scholars with an emphasis on rebuilding commitments to peer review of peer review.Here are the questions seeking answers that we will continue to address at the Guardians Conferences:• What accountability for willful disregard (Taswell 2023) of reproducibility, validity, and integrity in scholarly research?/10.