54: Cuckoo Science

Published: Dec. 15, 2017, 7 a.m.

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.

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Stuff they cover:

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  • How James got into finding and exposing inconsistent results
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  • The critiques of James\u2019 critiques
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  • How James would do things differently, if he were start over again?
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  • Separating nefarious motives from sloppiness
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  • The indirect victims of sloppy science
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  • Grants that fund sloppy science take resources from responsible science projects
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  • If people actually posted their data and methods, James\u2019 job would be much easier
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  • Registered reports improve the quality of science
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  • If James could show one slide to every introductory psychology lecture what would it say?
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  • The one thing James believes that others think is crazy
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  • What James has changed his mind about in the last year
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Links

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The Sokal hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
\nJames\u2019 Psychological Science paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797615572908
\nThe @IamSciComm Tweetstorm on podcasting: https://twitter.com/iamscicomm/status/935851867661357057

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