Stefan Gaillard specializes in failure, uncertainty, and erroneous claims – both in science and society. He is one of the co-founders of the Journal of Trial and Error and currently works on the special issue on scientific failure in the health domain.
InterviewBy Marcel Hobma & Stefan Gaillard
We present to you the fourth instalment of our “JOTE in conversation” series, where we ask Leo Tiokhin about Red Team Market and his career.
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InterviewBy Marcel Hobma & Stefan Gaillard
Professor of rhetoric at Utrecht University Michael Burke talks about failure and academic publishing. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"
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InterviewBy Stefan Gaillard, Laurien Hakvoort & Avi Gilboa
Mistakes are quite common in music therapy, yet rarely discussed. The book Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy and this interview are an attempt to remedy that.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard & Max Bautista Perpinya
On February 6, the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU) organized a symposium on Open Science at the Faculty of Science of Utrecht University.
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OpinionBy Stefan Gaillard & Martijn van der Meer
Vorige week presenteerde minister Van Engelshoven haar langverwachte ‘Strategische Agenda voor het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek’.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard
What does a congress on Posthumanism have in common with our journal? To be very honest, I had no idea at first.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard & Max Bautista Perpinya
The how-to articles on setting up the infrastructure needed for a journal have been for us a rough sketch of a road that we have been traveling mostly, and proudly, off-road.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard
One of our first alliances was with the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU). Stefan was already a member, so it was relatively easy for him to come into contact with the founders of OSCU.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard
We must admit that we were a little nervous for our first UtrechtInc meeting, exactly one week ago.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard
It truly was the most wonderful time of the year: the last Descartes Centre Colloquium of 2018. The Descartes Centre, of course, is a place of legend, it is right up there with El Dorado.
ReadStefan Gaillard, Stefan van Geelen, Elvire Landstra & Arno Hoes
Uncertainty is a daily reality in the health domain. Clinicians routinely face it when diagnosing patients, predicting outcomes, and selecting treatments in partnership with patients. Patients and their families, in turn, experience uncertainty about their condition and what the future may hold.…
Stefan Gaillard & Jip Prinsen
Due to a miscommunication in our publication workflow, a number of articles published over the past few months were incorrectly labeled, either in terms of article type or their (lack of) inclusion in a special issue. These errors have now been resolved, and measures have been taken to prevent…
Folco Panizza, Thomas Camminga, Stefan Gaillard & David Joachim Grüning
Harjani et al. (2023) conducted a gamified inoculation intervention against misinformation in rural India. Despite the ingenuity of the intervention design, the study revealed no significant effects on participants' ability to detect misinformation, highlighting cultural and digital barriers to…
Sarahanne Field, Stefan D.M. Gaillard, David Joachim Grüning & Alex Job Visser
In most industries, error is a problem. Take, for instance, the aviation industry. An error in the calculation of a plane’s gross weight could be catastrophic, as how much a plane weighs directly influences how it needs to be configured for take-off and landing. Countless fatal aviation accidents…
Stefan Gaillard & Sean Devine
It will come as no surprise to readers of this journal that failure is systematically ignored in academia. The entire culture of academia revolves around a notion of linear progress made in leaps and bounds by great thinkers, rather than the more realistic image of science as an ongoing process of…
Stefan Gaillard & Sean Devine
This paper is about error on three levels. First of all, it deals with research into the ERN, error-related negativity. The ERN is a negative deflection in the EEG signal, which tends to occur within 100 milliseconds of making an error. The authors hypothesize that physical pain can be considered as…
Sean Devine & Stefan Gaillard
The paper ‘Alcohol cues and aggressive thoughts’ reports a failed attempt at reproducing two experiments. The massive shortcomings of the reported reproduction are obvious. For a moment I was tempted to think that the authors, in the form of a standard psychological paper, were presenting a…
Sean Devine, Max Bautista Perpinyà, Valentine Delrue, Stefan Gaillard, Thomas F. K. Jorna, Martijn van der Meer, Lottricia Millett, Chelsea Pozzebon & Jobke Visser
With the publication of our first issue, we are pleased to formally introduce the Journal of Trial and Error (JOTE). Our goal in this editorial article is to (i) outline the problem JOTE aims to solve, (ii) detail our solution, and (iii) state our goals as a journal. As readers will see, we…
