Category Archives: Sociology of science

Week in review – back to school edition

Posted on September 3, 2016 | 280 comments

by Judith Curry

Many academics now consider freedom of speech just another American eccentricity, like guns and religion. – Daniel Jacobsen

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

Measuring bias in the U.S. federally-funded climate research

Posted on August 23, 2016 | 655 comments

by David Wojick

Semantic analysis of U.S. Federal budget documents indicates that the climate science research budget is heavily biased in favor of the paradigm of human-induced climate change.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Dan Sarewitz on Saving Science

Posted on August 22, 2016 | 154 comments

By Judith Curry

Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world. – Daniel Sarewitz

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Posted in Sociology of science

Alarm over the public loss of trust in science

Posted on August 18, 2016 | 267 comments

by Judith Curry

A blast of fresh air from the new Editor-in-Chief of Science. “Science editor-in-chief sounds alarm over falling public trust. Jeremy Berg warns scientists are straying into policy commentator roles.”

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

AMS: Weather, Water and Climate Priorities

Posted on July 18, 2016 | 65 comments

by Judith Curry

An eminently sensible and constructive statement from the American Meteorological Society.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

The troubled institution of science

Posted on July 15, 2016 | 317 comments

by Judith Curry

“Is the point of research to make other professional academics happy, or is it to learn more about the world?” —Noah Grand, sociology professor, UCLA

“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths.” — Paul Kalanithi, neurosurgeon and writer (1977–2015)

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Is much of current climate research useless?

Posted on July 6, 2016 | 733 comments

by Kip Hansen

John P. A. Ioannidis dropped another cluster bomb on the medical research world two weeks ago with his latest paper which concludes:

“Overall, not only are most research findings false, but, furthermore, most of the true findings are not useful.”

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Posted in Sociology of science