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May 4, 2022 · Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles about trust in science. Subsequent articles addressed whether the iterative nature of scientific discovery is at least partly to blame, why so many people believe medical misinformation, and whether people can be immunized against disinformation.
- Fixes
- Methods, Incentives and Introspection
- A Call to Arms?
In his newest workIoannidis sets out a list of remedies that science needs to adopt urgently. These include fostering a culture of replication, data sharing and more collaborative works that pool together larger data sets; along with pre-specification of the protocol including model specifications and the analyses to be conducted. Ioannidis has pre...
Ioannidis and co-authors are aware of the interplay between methods and incentives. For example, they say they’d refrain from suggesting that underpowered studies go unpublished, “as such a strategy would put pressure on investigators to report unrealistic and inflated power estimates based on spurious assumptions”. This is a crucial point. Better ...
Ioannidis and co-authors are careful to stress the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, as both troubles and solutions may spill over from one discipline to the other. This would perhaps be a call to the arms for social scientists in general – and for those who study science itself – to tackle the crisis as a priority. Here we clash with ano...
Mar 21, 2024 · The way science works, when combined with natural human frailties, ensures we will always have a baseline level of scientific fraud. Results of scientific investigations must be published so that ...
- William Reville
May 1, 2017 · Thus, I suggest addressing the credibility crisis of science by means of a carefully crafted balance between opening up the conceptual space and diminishing the range of options. Pluralism is part of the solution to the credibility crisis in promoting evenhandedness and well-testedness, i.e., relevance and reliability, but it is also part of the problem by preventing the emergence of ...
- Martin Carrier
- 2017
May 5, 2022 · For instance, in 2010, Nature published an editorial stating, “There is a growing anti-science streak . . . that could have tangible societal and political impacts” (2010, 133). In 2019, the forward to Naomi Oreskes’s book Why Trust Science? begins with the message, “Science confronts a public crisis of trust” (Macedo 2019, 1).
Apr 10, 2015 · Science is considered a source of truth and the importance of its role in shaping modern society cannot be overstated. But in recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many scientific experiments appear to be surprisingly hard to reproduce, while mistakes have highlighted flaws in the peer review system. This has hit ...
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Nov 22, 2019 · Open science is epistemically desirable (but see Levin & Leonelli, 2016). Specifically, in the context of the crisis, open science practices have the potential to increase replicability as they greatly facilitate replication work by independent researchers. The open science movement has also defended preregistration enthusiastically.
