The Crisis of Replication in Psychology and Evaluating Scientific Communities

Welcome to a special bonus episode of The HPS Podcast with Professor of Psychology, Simine Vazire, discussing the ways in which HPS scholars and scientists can work together to create better science.

We are releasing the episode to coincide with the campaign put together by Simine and others to support the legal defence of Data Colada – a group of professors who identify concerns with the integrity of published research. Members of Data Colada are being sued by Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School Professor, after they published blog posts raising concerns about the data integrity of four papers on which Gino was a co-author. As the group says, “defending science requires defending legitimate scientific criticism against legal bullying”.

In this podcast episode Indigo Keel, talks with Simine about more than just this one issue. They discuss Simine's connection to History and Philosophy of Science, the need for scientists to reflect on the practices of their discipline, issues that have arisen out of the replication crisis and cases of alleged scientific misconduct – including the Francesca Gino case. Simine highlights how philosophers of science can contribute to making science better.

Relevant links:

·       The GoFundMe Campaign to Support Data Colada’s Legal Defense

·       Vox Article: Is it Defamation to Point out Scientific Research Fraud?

·       Data Colada Post (Part 1): “Clusterfake”

·       Data Colada Post (Part 2): “My Class Year is Harvard”

·       Data Colada Post (Part 3): “The Cheaters are Out of Order”

·       Data Colada Post (Part 4): “Forgetting the Words”

A transcript of the episode can be found here: https://www.hpsunimelb.org/post/bonus-episode-transcript

Simine studies the research methods and practices used in psychology, as well as structural systems in science, such as peer review. Simine is editor in chief of Collabra: Psychology, one of the PIs on the repliCATS project (with Fiona Fidler), and co-founder (with Brian Nosek) of the

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