The Jordan Harbinger Show

436: Stuart Ritchie | The Science Fictions Undermining Facts

Nov 24, 2020

Stuart Ritchie, a lecturer at King’s College London and author of "Science Fictions," tackles the troubling landscape of misconduct in scientific research. He discusses how hype around bad studies overshadows significant findings, and how flawed incentives can lead to fraud. Ritchie emphasizes the importance of spotting bad science and advocates for the Open Science movement as a remedy. He also reveals the dangers of biases in peer review and historical misuses of science in totalitarian regimes, calling for more transparency and accountability in research.

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Stuart Ritchie

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Episode notes

Intro

3min

Psychic Experimentation and Publication Bias

10min

Priming in Psychology: Implications and Accountability

14min

Unraveling the Myths of Peer Review and Scientific Fraud

3min

The Dark Side of Scientific Integrity

19min

The Distortion of Science in Totalitarian Regimes

2min

The Integrity of Science: Bias and Accountability

15min

Navigating Scientific Integrity

6min

Stuart Ritchie (@StuartJRitchie) is a lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London and author of Intelligence: All That Matters and Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.

What We Discuss with Stuart Ritchie:

Why good, meaningful science too often gets pushed aside by the hype around bad science that makes for sensational headlines.
How and why incentives in research are often skewed and lead to bad science — and even outright fraud.
What happens when good scientists are hoodwinked by bad science and vouch for it as gospel because its pedigree seems legit.
How can you spot bad science before you adapt your lifestyle to correspond to its dodgy, worthless, or perhaps even dangerous advice?
What is the Open Science movement, and how might it help us reform these problems in research going forward?
And much more…

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