Is the “business-as-usual” approach to science in crisis? Does the public have a good grasp of how scientific knowledge is really generated? And might scientists be as much prey to self-serving biases as the rest of us mortals? Simine Vazire joins Igor and Charles to discuss the thorny complexity of seeking reliable knowledge about the world and about ourselves, the perils of being a whistleblower in the competitive world of modern science, and the on-going scientific credibility revolution. We discuss meta-scientists, the Open Science movement, and the power of preprints to bust open the black box of peer review. Igor tries to unpack the dialectic of motives among the ‘data policemen,’ Simine issues a call-to-arms for a grassroots-powered future for the scientific community, and Charles learns that the planet of self-knowledge is in a galaxy still far, far away. Welcome to Episode 25.

Special Guest: Simine Vazire.

Links:

• Simine Vazire
• Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong - Vox
• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant - Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, Uri Simonsohn, 2011
• Let’s Add Kindness to Science - Shira Gabriel - Medium
• The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
• Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Real, Many Labs 2 Says - The Atlantic
• Daryl Bem proved ESP is real. Which means science is broken - Slate
• Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. - PubMed - NCBI
• Most Americans trust military, scientists to act in public interest | Pew Research Center
• The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study | The BMJ
• From Protoscience to Proper Science: The Path ahead for Psychology | Science | The Guardian
• Sometimes I'm Wrong: Flip Yourself - Part I - Simine Vazire Blog
• The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science
• Wisdom and Value Orientations: Just a Projection of Our Own Beliefs? - Glück, Schrottenbacher (2019)