Unbreaking Science

UBS BOOTCAMP EPISODE 2: IS SCIENCE BROKEN? In this 1 1/2 hour-long episode,Dr. Jack reviews stunning messages from three editors of major medical journals and introduces the work of Dr. John Ionnidis and others who say that most the published results in the scientific literature is expected to be wrong. Learn why and reviews the evidence - from psychology to cancer research and economic science.Review competing viewpoints on the question "Is Science Broken?". Be ready to jump-start your empirical rational inquiry abilities. Themes: Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), Publication bias, double false-positive "validation", perverse incentives. TOPICS: GLYPHOSATE SAFETY SCIENCE-LIKE ACTIVITIES

Resources Related to UBS Episode 2

YouTube Lectures from Dr. John Ionnidis

Reproducible Research: True or False? Talks at Google.
Reproducibility of Scientific Results
Why Most Clinical Research is Not Useful

See Also "Why Most Published Research Findings are False" Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Science Part 1

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST)

Intro to Hypothesis Testing in Statistics

Publication Bias/File Drawer Problem

Glyphosate Safety Science-Like Activities

References for Episode 2

UBS BOOTCAMPEpisode 1: What is Science? Dr. Jack explores what some philosophers of science claim no longer exists: ways to tell science vs. non-science. Known as the problem of demarcation, when we get this issue wrong and substitute 'science-like activities' (SLAs) for Science (with a capital 'S'), you can get the worst results money can buy! Themes: Rational discourse, positivism, falsifiability vs. testability, skepticism vs. pseudoskepticism, Science with a Capital S, SLAs. TOPICS: EVOLUTION:THE ORIGINS OF TROPICAL DIVERSITY

Resources Related to Episode 1

What was Popper's "Demarcation"?

Subjective Belief vs. The Quest for Knowledge.

Hypothetico-deductivism.

David Hume's Types of Knowledge and the Problem of Induction

Positivism.

Confirmationism.

Constructivism vs. Empiricist Rational Inquiry. Do We Create or Discover Knowledge?

Justificationism. Kuhn vs. Popper. The Problem of Induction. Induction and the Limits of Knowledge. Scientism. Appeal to Authority Fallacy.

Methodological Anarchy: Agassi, J. Against method: Outline of an anarchist theory of knowledge. Philosophia 6:165-177.

Regulatory Capture.

JLW: The Five Stages in the Ontology of Science and Why Science Needs to Mature Into its Predictive Stage

References for Episode 1

UBS Bootcamp Episode 3. Publication Bias and Levels of Evidence. Find out why meta-scientists say that most published studies are wrong, why the Replication Crisis exists, why "significance" is not the only valuable outcome of studies, and why replication "success" is not the only type of success we should measure in Science. What questions exist and what solutions are being explored? How - and when - can we determine causality - and when it is impossible? Themes: Levels of Evidence, p-hacking, HARKing, Replication Crisis, New Measures of Success in Science. TOPICS: PSYCHOLOGY: POWER POSING, EGO DEPLETION. Solutions: UBS Mantra #1, Pink-sheeting