

Science Post-Replication Crisis, Meta-science, Fraud, Misreporting | Randy Ellis
Randy Ellis is a biologist and computational biologist. It's been a few decades since cases of fraud in psychology began science's "replication crisis". What has happened since then? What problems remain? And what does the future hold? In this podcast, expect to learn about fraud in science, the misincentives in science that lead to too many positive results, why replication has proven difficult in science, ways science's problems could be fixed, and more... Timestamps: 00:00 The Replication Crisis in Science 08:08 Why Are Replication Rates So Bad? 16:13 Fraud in Science 23:32 Confirmation Bias From Scientists Meta-Science and Improving Scientific Practices 27:54 Enhancing Credibility and Reproducibility in Science 43:30 Future of Science 47:14 Problems in Clinical Trials 53:04 Problems of Citation Metrics Find Randy: randalljellis.github.io