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We Are All Gatekeepers Now: Scrutiny of Science Goes Public Society for Scholarly Publishing Fall Educational Seminar November 7, 2012 Ivan Oransky, MD Retraction Watch Reuters Health
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We Are All Gatekeepers Now:Scrutiny of Science Goes Public
Society for Scholarly PublishingFall Educational Seminar
November 7, 2012
Ivan Oransky, MDRetraction Watch
Reuters Health
Science Under the Microscope
The Guardian, September 13, 2012
Science Under the Microscope
The New York Times, October 1, 2012
Who Mistrusts Science?
From 1974 to 2010, “group differences in trust in science are largely stable…except for respondents identifying as conservative. Conservatives began the period with the highest trust in science, relative to liberals and moderates, and ended the period with the lowest.”
Gauchat, American Sociological Review, 2012
Who Trusts Science?
77% of respondents said they trust scientists to tell the truth, compared to less than 20% who thought the President would.
Harris poll, 2006
Who Mistrusts Science?
-- Irish Medical Research Council
What Fuels Mistrust of Science?
The argument goes something like this: Science is self-correcting, so it takes care of its own mistakes. And scientific fraud is rare, so focusing on misconduct gives a distorted picture of research that will only give ammunition to critics, who want to cast doubt on subjects such as climate change and vaccine safety.
Marcus and Oransky, Lab Times, 9/12
What Really Fuels Mistrust of Science?
It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. People stop trusting institutions when they continue to insist “Move along, nothing to see here”, despite the stubborn persistence of misconduct.
Marcus and Oransky, Lab Times, 9/12
Themes
• Lessons from arsenic life
• The power of blogs
• Post-publication peer review, and how embracing it can promote ethical behavior
Arsenic Life
http://discovermagazine.com
Arsenic Life
http://discovermagazine.com
Anonymous Whistleblowers Step Up
http://www.labtimes.org
Blogs Get Aggressive
http://abnormalscienceblog.wordpress.com/
Blogs Get Aggressive
Blogs Get Aggressive
http://md-anderson-cc.blogspot.com
Blogs Get Aggressive
http://www.science-fraud.org/
Journals are Listening
Retraction Watch
Retraction Watch
http://www.nature.com/nm/
Retraction Watch
http://www.nature.com/nm/
Post-Publication Peer Review
Nature (22 Dec 2011) doi:10.1038/480449a
Post-Publication Peer Review
http://crossref.org/
Post-Publication Peer Review
Post-Publication Peer Review
http://precedings.nature.com/
Post-Publication Peer Review
Alt Metrics
http://total-impact.org/
Alt Metrics
http://sciencecard.org/
Contact Info
http://retractionwatch.com
@ivanoransky (better)
Thanks to Nancy Lapid, Reuters Health
