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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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The Science of Science and the Incentives for Research

I think scientists just have to step up yeah well it's once again you've proven that you're like telepathic because you've anticipated my next question which was to step out a bit and to get into this issue of the science of science. How do we know what is true sort of independent of the fact that everyone else is like gazing at it? I guess these two issues feel very intimately related so when you talk about the reward systems in the metrics we use in science where it's a citation or it’s a download from a necessary and you know archive or you know whatever it's the same thing in broader society. It's those kinds of things that are changing are sort of

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