Episode 4: The Replication Crisis Gets Personal

In their most emotional episode yet, Yoel and Mickey discuss the replication crisis in psychology. What is meant by the replication crisis and how did it get started? Why does it appear like the field is split into two, with some young academics actively trying to reform psychology and more senior scholars suggesting the problems have been mostly overstated? How have academics dealt with the possibility that their own work might not be robust and replicable? Finally, how did one of the most notorious academic fraudsters get caught?

Bonus: Did Mickey spike Toxoplasma gondii (crazy cat lady parasite) in Yoel’s beer?

Links:

• Bellwoods Brewery Cat Lady
• Gueuze and Gose - What's the difference?
• Tatter Podcast
• Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to? | PNAS
• Feeling The Future: Is Precognition Possible?
• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant by Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, Uri Simonsohn :: SSRN
• The Data Vigilante - The Atlantic
• Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test : Nature News & Comment
• List of Registered Replication Reports
• Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked.
• Reckoning with the Past — Michael Inzlicht
• Everything is fucked: The syllabus
• Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud - The New York Times
• Diederik Stapel's Autobiography