Can you trust science?

In this episode, the humans discuss the replication crisis: a methodological crisis in the sciences in which the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. The problem undermines significant findings in everything from psychology, to medical science, to chemistry.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

Replication crisis on wikipedia

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth by Dr. Stuart Ritchie

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre

The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction - ‘Great’ TV show

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (4 of Plato’s books, including Apology, the story where Socrates describes the oracle of Delphi saying no one is smarter than him)

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect by Dr. Daryl J. Bem of Cornell University

Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem’s ‘Retroactive Facilitation of Recall’ Effect by Stuart J. Ritchie et al.

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility: Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research - Article in Nature

Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy - Open letter from psychologies urging governments not to consider psychological findings when making COVID-19 policy

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science by the Open Science Collaboration

The Retraction Watch Leaderboard - List of the most fraudulent researchers in the world

Automaticity of Social Behavior: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action by Bargh et al. - Priming people with old age to make them walk slower study

Behavioral Priming: It’s all in the Mind, but Whose Mind? by Doyen et al. - Replication of Old Age priming study

The Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie Santos

High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton