Podcast – Bad Science Part 2: Cogs in the Machine

(Listen to Bad Science Part 1 here)

Cogs in the machine

PeerJ co-founder Jason Hoyt speaks with Cardiff University psychology professor Chris Chambers in this ongoing series on “Bad Science.”

Introduction
0:05 – The widening division between science and the public

Part 1: Reproducibility vs Playing the Game (01:25)
1:55 – Selling stories to get into top journals
7:30 – Hitting roadblocks as a young researcher
9:44 – Origins of registered reports
13:44 – Old guard vs registered reports
16:15 – Is Open Science bad for your career?
19:15 – The academic training system needs to be rebuilt / Reproducibility Network
22:50 – Max Weber and Academic Careerism

Part 2: Science & Politics (31:05)
31:30 – Post-WW2 science funding explosion and unintended consequences
32:45 – Providing research to politicians
34:57 – It’s not our job to hold back knowledge
40:05 – Failure to engage
43:05 – Technocracy vs Democracy
46:59 – Remembering why we do science
52:39 – Closing

LINKS
Chris Chambers on Twitter
Chris at Cardiff University

REFERENCES
The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice by Chris Chambers On Amazon

Florian Markowetz. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Genome Biology. 2015 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0850-7

Munafò et al. A manifesto for reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour. 2017. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0021

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin (2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)

MUSIC
Original music by Jeremy Sherman. Licensed(73171-MTR-108920). www.neosounds.com/songs/2491