171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)
We chat with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris about the science of cons and how we can we can avoid being taken in. We also cover the fate of the gorilla suit from the 'invisible gorilla' study, ...
20 Juli 202355min
170: Holy sheet
We discuss evidence of data tampering in a series of experiments investigating dishonesty revealed via excel spreadsheet metadata and how traditional peer review is not suited for the detection of dat...
23 Juni 202350min
169: Using big data to understand behavior (Live episode with Sandra Matz)
In our first ever live and in-person episode, we chat with Sandra Matz about the opportunities and challenges for using big data to understand human behavior Links Everybody lies book (https://www.ama...
31 Maj 202343min
168: Meta-meta-science
Dan and James discuss a new paper that reviews potential issues in metascience practices. They also talk about their upcoming live show in May in Frankfurt. Links Our upcoming show on May 8th, which w...
27 Apr 202348min
167: Diluted effect sizes
Dan and James chat about a new study that uses homeopathy studies to evaluate bias in biomedical research, a new-ish type of authorship fraud, and the potential for Chat GPT peer-review. Links The Cha...
16 Mars 202343min
166: Is science becoming less disruptive over time?
Dan and James discuss a recent paper that claims that science is becoming less disruptive over time and the suggested causes for this decline. Links * Our prior episode (https://everythinghertz.com/16...
25 Jan 202352min
165: Self-promotion
Dan and James chat about self-promotion in academia, how they both wish they had doctoral defences (these aren't a thing in Australia), and replacing error bars with the letter "t". Links and stuff * ...
30 Dec 202241min
164: The great migration
James and Dan discuss the recent migration of scientists from Twitter to Mastodon and the pros and cons of sharing the prior submission history of manuscripts The Mastodon thread (https://mas.to/@Ste...
28 Nov 202249min
