436: Stuart Ritchie | The Science Fictions Undermining Facts
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stuart Ritchie (@StuartJRitchie) is a lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London and author of Intelligence: All That Matters and Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.
What We Discuss with Stuart Ritchie:- Why good, meaningful science too often gets pushed aside by the hype around bad science that makes for sensational headlines.
- How and why incentives in research are often skewed and lead to bad science — and even outright fraud.
- What happens when good scientists are hoodwinked by bad science and vouch for it as gospel because its pedigree seems legit.
- How can you spot bad science before you adapt your lifestyle to correspond to its dodgy, worthless, or perhaps even dangerous advice?
- What is the Open Science movement, and how might it help us reform these problems in research going forward?
- And much more…
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| 0:06.7 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:09.6 | The journal itself, the Lancet, one of the world's top medical journals, |
| 0:12.6 | ran a growing editorial that said, |
| 0:15.6 | Paolo MacUrinni is not guilty of misconduct. |
| 0:18.4 | Just a few weeks later, when all the stuff about the pulp and all that came out, |
| 0:22.1 | and also there was this documentary where they actually went and met some of the patients |
| 0:25.6 | and saw the terrible condition they were in. |
| 0:27.7 | After that came out, they had to all humiliate,ingly claim down and say, |
| 0:31.0 | okay, we were wrong. Actually, this guy has been fraudulent all along. |
| 0:34.4 | So in this case, you had like big medical institutions covering up and like, |
| 0:38.5 | they were on his side, they were on the side of a psychopathic fraudster that was bleeding to the deaths of his patients. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:50.2 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most |
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| 1:14.4 | thinker. If you listen to this show, chances are you're a big believer in science, |
| 1:17.7 | so you put a lot of trust into it. I do as well. But what happens when we lose some of the transparency |
| 1:23.0 | that is the cornerstone of the scientific process? Well, today, we'll discuss why hype in science |
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