Reply to "Statistical concerns about the GSEA procedure"

Moral Convictions Often Override Concerns About Procedural Fairness: A Reply to Napier and Tyler

Napier and Tyler (this issue) question whether moral convictions about outcomes really override the influence of procedural fairness (PF) on fairness judgments and decision acceptance. The empirical answer to this question is ‘‘yes.’’ When people have strong moral convictions about outcomes, perceptions of outcome fairness and decision acceptance are primarily shaped by whether the morally ‘‘co...

Reply to “Concerns about Transmission Electron Micrographs in Recent Article by Chen and Williams”

T his Letter to the Editor concerns a recent article published in mBio (1). I am offering my comments on this article in the spirit of the correct interpretation of scientific data. My areas of expertise are in electron microscopy and in prokaryotic predators known as Bdellovibrio and Bdellovibrio-like organisms (BALOs). I have a recent article in the International Journal of Systematic and Evo...

Reply to “Concerns about Recently Identified Widespread Antisense Transcription in Escherichia coli”

In our recent article, “Widespread Antisense Transcription in Escherichia coli” (1), we describe the identification of ~1,000 antisense RNAs (aRNAs) in the model bacterium Escherichia coli. This finding is significant because it suggests that aRNAs represent a major class of regulators in bacteria. Slonczewski expressed concerns regarding (i) the documentation of methods used, (ii) possible con...

Supersizing effect sizes raises concerns: a reply to Zimmerman (2014).

Zimmerman (2014) suggested that our reanalysis adds little to the scientific literature. We disagree. We clarify our motivations and explain how further analyses based on his suggestion for age do not change our conclusions. Moreover, we believe the nascent experimental literature is more in line with our interpretations than Zimmerman's. We continue to believe that scientists should be cautiou...

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