"We've invented 95% of the universe" | Hilary Lawson and John Ioannidis on the failures of science
267Hilary Lawson and John Ioannidis discuss the structural defects that undermine scientific inquiry.
Is science inherently biased and flawed? And if so, how can we ever trust our discoveries?
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Most of us think science to be true, but Stanford professor John Ioannidis has demonstrated that the majority of scientific papers make claims that are never successfully repeated and we should therefore conclude are false. Meanwhile, post-realist philosopher, Hilary Lawson argues that science is never true in the sense of describing the ultimate character of reality, but is instead a way of framing the world to enable us to intervene. Join them to explore the problematic relationship between science, truth and reality, and what it means for our understanding of the world.
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John Ioannidis is a physician, scientist and writer as well as a professor at Stanford University. He is the author of Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. Hilary Lawson is a philosopher and long-standing critic of realism, best known for his theory of closure. Hosted by Imperial College London Material Physicist Jess Wade.
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00:00 Introduction
00:22 Is science accurate and reliable?
01:03 Science is constrained by our perspectives and biases
04:01 Much of our scientific research is flawed
07:21 There is no neutral, unbiased perspective
10:40 When we get carried away with theoretical fantasies
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