METACEPTION

METACEPTION

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METACEPTION episodes

  • Pandemics and the social fabric
    Personal reflections on how we're dealing with the chaos in the world differently. I apologize for the audio being cutoff at the end, technical difficulties arose.
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    2 hr 1 min
  • On Threats to Free Speech and Sociological Storytelling
    An intellectual conversation with a close friend related to free speech, social discourse and storytelling. I apologize for the background noise, one day when I have better equipment I will avoid it. This is a test run for us that we want to improve on.. This was edited in segments to cut out personal discussions we didn't think were relevant. Some links that are related to what we discuss: https://youtu.be/jCsCq4Qo9P4. https://youtu.be/0yru5dhyrvU. https://youtu.be/z18LY6NME1s. https://theweek.com/articles/863225/leftwing-threat-campus-free-speech-abating-rightwing-threat-not. https://static.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-cool-kids-philosopher.
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    53 min
  • The Problem of Coercive Citations
    A start of a new metascience discussion on peer review, starting with the issue of Coercive Citations and how common are they? Recommended readings: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02922-9#content https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
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    10 min
  • The Conservative Case For Caring About LGBT rights
    A discussion on how to approach subjects related to LGBT rights in a way that appeals to conservative values. Relevant sources: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/480247305/how-the-utah-compromise-could-serve-as-a-model-law-for-other-states
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gays-utah-idUSKBN0M909V20150313
    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/things-that-cost-more-than-medical-care-for-transgender-soldiers/534945/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/estimating-the-economic-impact-of-marriage-for-same-sex-couples-one-year-after-obergefell/ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t24j53h
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    28 min
  • The invisible problems of Ph.D students
    https://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-that-no-one-talks-about/
    A discussion building on this piece about the mental health issues common among graduate students but remain rather obscure.
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    11 min
  • What is the problem with public research being corporate backed?
    A discussion of the problems that come from public universities depending on private corporations to back their research. Primarily built on this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/problem-sugar-daddy-science/598231/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/public-universities-get-an-education-in-private-industry/521379/
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    19 min
  • Cause for cautious optimism amidst the replication crisis
    A discussion of positive developments major scientific communities have taken to address the replication crisis. Based around these articles: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sports-science-is-finally-talking-about-its-methodology-problems/
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/psychologys-replication-crisis-has-made-the-field-better/
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    14 min
  • Has Science slowed down?
    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/
    https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/ Built around these articles, a discussion of just how finite or infinite the frontier of scientific discovery might be?
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    21 min
  • The Future of the Scientific Paper
    A discussion on the very way scientific research is presented, is it possible for the scientific community to move beyond simple papers and PDFs? This episode is primarily built on this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/
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    22 min

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