Dan and James chat with Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine) about the how false beliefs spread in science and remedies for this issue
Here's what they cover:
Why should psychologist scientists learn about the philosophy of science?
Cailin's new preprint on error propogation that she co-authrored
Boyd and Richerson's "Culture and the Evolutionary Process" book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo5970597.html)
Episode 91 with Kristin Sainani (https://everythinghertz.com/91) that discussed magnitude based inference
Christie Aschwanden (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-shoddy-statistics-found-a-home-in-sports-research/) on Magnitude Based Inference
The Misinformation age (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234015/misinformation-age), co-authored by Cailin
Cailin's paper on the retraction of scientific papers (http://cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Retractions_in_Epistemic_Networks-2.pdf)
With Scite, you can be alterted whether a given paper has been retracted
Where should you start if you're interested in the philosophy of science?
Science as social knowledge (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691020518/science-as-social-knowledge), by Helen Longino
Cailin's on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cailinmeister) and you should also check out her website (http://cailinoconnor.com/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, November 16) "120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O'Connor", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6S8TB Special Guest: Cailin O'Connor.