44: Who’s afraid of the New Bad People? (with Nick Brown)

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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