We’re often told that scientific knowledge consists of a cabal of secret masterminds that come to a concensus, and tell us plebs how the world really works. With the magic of their chief artifacts “peer review” and “staticics”, they earn the position to tell us true from false and it is our job to merely believe them. Thus especially when a politician or activist says “The science is settled!”
But what if it’s not all polish and roses? I’d like to put forth the argument that academia is not quite so pristine. That perhaps, as a friend who’d gone to graduate school seems to suggest, that academia is at least as messy and bumbling as the rest of life.
Question Everything.
Viewings
Modern Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg
Eric Weinstein - Peer Review “A Cancer from Outer Space” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sRYsMjiAQ
Is most published research wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q
How to lie with statistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVG2OQp6jEQ
Listenings
The Flaws of Academic Statistics: the Null Ritual https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/videos/watch/8783d603-6ada-4789-8ace-78ae5d77875a
Readings
Most Social Science research isn’t reproducible https://www.wired.com/story/social-science-reproducibility/
Science vs Soyence https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/soyence