44: Who’s afraid of the New Bad People? (with Nick Brown)
May 19, 2017•1 hr 9 min
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Episode description
James and Dan are joined by Nick Brown (University of Groningen) to discuss how the New Bad People — also known as shameless little bullies, vigilantes, the self-appointed data police, angry nothings, scientific McCarthyites, second-stringers, whiners, the Stasi, destructo-critics, and wackaloons* — are trying to improve science
Here’s what they cover
- Power imbalances in academia
- Publication bias
- Euphemisms for people who are publicly critical of science
- How to go about questioning the scientific record
- Peer reviewed criticism vs. blog posts
- Making meta-analysis easier
- Data-recycling
- Well-being and genomics
- Popular science books and conflicts of interest
- The ‘typical’ response to a Letter to an Editor
- What Dan and James do during the breaks
- Why don’t people report descriptive statistics anymore?
- Priming studies
- Science in the media
- What Nick has changed his mind about
Links
Nick on Twitter - @sTeamTraen
Nick’s blog - http://steamtraen.blogspot.no
- This list is from one of James’ blog posts https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/meet-the-new-bad-people-4922137949a1
Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/
Special Guest: Nick Brown.
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