Can science be objective? | John Ioannidis, Claudia de Rham & Harry Collins
168John Ioannidis, Claudia de Rham and Harry Collins debate objectivity in science.
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Science is founded on repeatable experiment, separating its theories from opinion. Yet that is not what happens in practice. A recent study found that 80% of scientific papers are never replicated, and a majority of them turn out to be false. And if counter evidence to one of the major theories of science is uncovered it is often ignored or explained away.
Can we simply clean up science and ensure that results are reliable and assume all will then be well? Or is the issue more profound and we have to conclude that experiments do not decide the matter and science is built on the theories and beliefs of the researcher and not purely on experimental fact?
Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and author of the most downloaded paper in history John Ioannidis, theoretical physicist and winner of the 2020 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists Claudia de Rham and sociologist of science and author of Are We All Scientific Experts Now Harry Collins discuss the importance of replicability and objectivity in science.
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John Ioannidis is a physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. Ioannidis studies scientific research itself, meta-research primarily in clinical medicine and the social sciences.
Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics, based at Imperial College London.
Harry Collins is a sociologist of science at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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