Everything Hertz

By Dan QuintanaScience Social Sciences Medicine Health & Fitness

Everything Hertz episodes

January 14195: Living meta-analysis
We discuss how living meta‑analyses—meta‑analyses that are continuously updated as new studies appear—can cut research waste and keep evidence current. We also chat about how using synthetic research participants is a terrible idea.
Links
The BMJ Christmas special paper on how recent is "recent"
The synthetic panel service
The paper describing a living meta-analysis platform for oxytocin research
A preprint commentary on living meta-analysis
Social media links
Dan on Bluesky
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November 10, 2025194: Author verification
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should require author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, but is this worth the potential downsides? We also discuss the similarities and differences between academia and professional sports and a weird case of author identity theft.
Other links
The BJKS podcast https://bjks.buzzsprout.com
Social media links
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45 min
August 07, 2025193: The pop-up journal
Dan and James chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. They also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a new PNAS article on paper mills
Links
The pop-up journal
The episode where Dan's wife went into labor
The PNAS paper mill paper
A blog post from the PNAS paper lead author, Reese Richardson.
The Nature piece on the paper
Social media links
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, August 7). 193: The pop-up journal, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/2ZMQ7
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July 01, 2025192: Outsourcing in academia
Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic institutions and commercial institutions.
Social media links
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, July 1). 192: Outsourcing in academia, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3MC2R
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June 03, 2025191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines
James and Dan discuss James' newly funded 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines.
Links
James' blog post from last year
The carthorse child blog post
The blog post announcing the project
A write up in Nature about the project
Other links
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, June 4). 191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/537BN
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April 02, 2025190: What happens when you pay reviewers?
We chat about two new studies that took different approaches for evaluating the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality.
Links
James' 450 movement proposal
The paper from Critical Care Medicine
The preprint from Biology Open
Other links
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, April 2). 190: What happens when you pay reviewers?, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PHQ2K
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March 02, 2025189: Crit me baby, one more time
Dan and James discuss a recent piece that proposes a post-publication review process, which is triggered by citation counts. They also cover how an almetrics trigger could be alternatively used for a more immediate post-publication critique.
Links
The Chonicle piece by Andrew Gelman and Andrew King [Free to read with email registration]
The paper by Peder Isager and collegues on how to decide what papers we should replicate. Here is the preprint.
The ERROR project
Other links
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, Mar 2). 189: Crit me baby, one more time, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3X5UR
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January 30, 2025188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity
Dan and James discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity.
Links
The editorial from Christopher Mebane: https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgae046
Other links
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
Dan on Bluesky
James on Bluesky
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, Jan 30). Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6XS29
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December 03, 2024187: What started the replication crisis era?
We chat about the events that started the replication crisis in psychology and Dorothy Bishop's recent resignation from the Royal Society
Links
The resignation blogpost from Dorothy Bishop
The bluesky post from Sarah Weiten that asked the question, "If you had to cite an event that opened the "replication crisis" era, what would you point to?"
The "Year of Horrors" paper from Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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$1 per month: A 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, access to the occasional bonus episode, and the the warm feeling you're supporting the show
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2024, Dec 3). 187: What started the replication crisis era?, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/EC7QH
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56 min
November 13, 2024186: Evaluating journal quality
In this episode we chat about a Nordic approach for evaluating the journal quality and how we should be teaching undergraduates to evaluate journal and article quality
Links
The Norwegian journal register
The Finnish journal register
Episode 22, where we played "Pokemon or Cholesterol medication?"
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Dan on twitter
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2024, Nov 13). 186: Evaluating journal quality, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KB37U
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