1. gregladen
  2. Call in, question everything

Call in, question everything

By gregladen on September 24, 2010.

Tonight's skeptically speaking will be on Improbable Research:

Marc Abrahams

We look at the stranger side of science with Marc Abrahams, the editor of Annals of Improbable Research and creator of the the Ig Nobel Prize. Is science that makes us laugh better at making us think?

and

Speaking up
Neurobiologist Dr. Richard Wassersug explains his research into the relative tastiness of Costa Rican tadpoles.


Details here.

And, don't forget to listen to the podcast from last week:

Bad Research

Cognitive psychologist Barbara Drescher joins us to discuss the common mistakes scientists make, and what happens to the science when their research goes wrong.

and

Journalist David Dobbs explains the case against Marc Hauser, a prominent Harvard evolutionary biologist who was recently found guilty of scientific misconduct.

Tags
Uncategorized

More like this

Bad Research
Cognitive psychologist Barbara Drescher joins us to discuss the common mistakes scientists make, and what happens to the science when their research goes wrong. ... and .... Journalist David Dobbs explains the case against Marc Hauser, a prominent Harvard evolutionary biologist who was recently…
Scientific Research Gone Bad
Skeptically Speaking with Desiree Schell. The podcast for last week's show is available here. David Dobbs talks about Marc Hauser, which is rather interesting. Then, Barbara Drescher talks about common mistakes made by scientists (sort of an extension of the theme). The Podcast is here. The…
Friday Fun: Night owls are psychopaths, the perils of cat ownership and more: The Ig Nobel Prizes 2014!
The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded last week and as usual they are hilarious. And this time around a Canadian was included! Yay Canada! What are the Ig Nobel prizes? For the uninitiated they are a mock set of awards given out at a lavish ceremony at Harvard every year for interesting and bizarre real…
What causes scientific misconduct?
In the last post, we looked at a piece of research on how easy it is to clean up the scientific literature in the wake of retractions or corrections prompted by researcher misconduct in published articles. Not surprisingly, in the comments on that post there was some speculation about what…

Marc Hauser is such an unfortunate case. I'm glad he shouldered all of the blame so as not to cloud the reputations and future of his assistants. The subject was an eyeopener.