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4-12-2021Quite flattered and a bit nostalgic to see my very first metascience paper highlighted in PLoS ONE's 15th anniversary Blog post.
11-10-2021Belated thanks to the 2021 ENRIO conference for granting me the honour of giving the opening talk. I discussed how science may be challenged by some downsides of new ICTs and new cultures, including "cancel culture". See video recording and link to slides.
It was also an interesting experience to take part in the cuncurrent COPE seminar, within the session on retraction taxonomies, where I warned that a "removal retraction" format could represent the modern equivalent of book burning. link to slides.Slides here.
11-10-2021Belated thanks to the 2021 ENRIO conference for granting me the honour of giving the opening talk. I discussed how science may be challenged by some downsides of new ICTs and new cultures, including "cancel culture". See video recording and link to slides.
It was also an interesting experience to take part in the cuncurrent COPE seminar, within the session on retraction taxonomies, where I warned that a "removal retraction" format could represent the modern equivalent of book burning. link to slides.Slides here.
5-4-2021. So many interesting questions and feedback received at my recent Phil Stat Forum, where I argued that a an information metric could bring truce to the statistics wars. The video recording offers an updated introduction to K theory.
5-3-2021. Deeply honoured to be pitted against Jon Krosnick in a "pro/con" opinion article in Congressional Quarterly, on whether science is facing a credibility crisis. I took the "No" position, of course. The whole feature on whether Expertise is Under Assault covers a lot of interesting ground.
3-3-2021. Quillette discussed my covidConsensus.org project in a feature article suggesting that Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint . I believe the author to be right!
28-1-2021. Was the OUMUAUA asteroid was an alien artefact? I don't know, but I sure want good evidence before believing it, I told The Debrief.
17-12-2020. Over 450 have visited covidConsensus.org and nearly 100 have voted! Some really interesting patterns emerged in the opinions, which I summarized in a Blog post.
6-12-2020. It's out! A pilot project to develop new ways to help scientists debate controversial ideas in public. I asked a sample of published authors to express their opinion on the Focussed Protection stratgegy against Covid-19: www.covidconsensus.org. Initial results suggest that opinions are widespread, and it appears that females are less favourable than males, and Western countries less than Eastern ones. Response rates are rather low, however, and any suggestions to improve them will be greatly appreciated.