Everything Hertz

54: Cuckoo Science

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In this episode, James sits in the guest chair as Dan interviews him on his recent work find and exposing inconsistent results in the scientific literature.

Stuff they cover:

  • How James got into finding and exposing inconsistent results
  • The critiques of James’ critiques
  • How James would do things differently, if he were start over again?
  • Separating nefarious motives from sloppiness
  • The indirect victims of sloppy science
  • Grants that fund sloppy science take resources from responsible science projects
  • If people actually posted their data and methods, James’ job would be much easier
  • Registered reports improve the quality of science
  • If James could show one slide to every introductory psychology lecture what would it say?
  • The one thing James believes that others think is crazy
  • What James has changed his mind about in the last year

    • Links

    The Sokal hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

    James’ Psychological Science paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797615572908
    The @IamSciComm Tweetstorm on podcasting: https://twitter.com/iamscicomm/status/935851867661357057

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