436: Stuart Ritchie | The Science Fictions Undermining Facts

Stuart Ritchie (@StuartJRitchie) is a lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London and author of Intelligence: All That Matters and Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth. What We Discuss with Stuart Ritchie: Why good, meaningful science too often gets pushed aside by the hype around bad science that makes for sensational headlines. How and why incentives in research are often skewed and lead to bad science — and even outright fraud. What happens when good scientists are hoodwinked by bad science and vouch for it as gospel because its pedigree seems legit. How can you spot bad science before you adapt your lifestyle to correspond to its dodgy, worthless, or perhaps even dangerous advice? What is the Open Science movement, and how might it help us reform these problems in research going forward? And much more… Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/436 Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course! Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!