Saving Science Show - Teaser Trailer
Channel: Saving Democracy dot ca
Date: 2020-09-17

How broken is academic science? New evidence, to-be-released in this show, suggests that the global academic system might be more deeply broken than the public, & even researchers, realize.

Based on a uniquely thorough & broad-view 10-year investigation, the new disclosures appear to suggest the problems might be so deep-rooted & systemic, that more major reforms might be required to fix the system (at all levels, i.e., researchers, journals/publishers, universities, & funders).


***Bio & Motivations:
Dr. Etienne LeBel is a psychologist & independent meta-scientist who has contributed to raising transparency & replication standards in academia for more than 10 years.  He has published over 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles in internationally renowned journals, including the prestigious journal Science.  He is founder & lead of Curate Science, a nonprofit global initiative to verify, ensure, and track the transparency and credibility of research (see etiennelebel.com and CurateScience.org for more details).

I'm motivated by (1) the ethical duty of intellectuals to report on matters of public concern & (2) the fact that properly functioning science is the best way to finding better treatments for cruel medical conditions like suicide, cancer, and Alzheimer’s, which have touched my family personally, and continue to afflict millions of people worldwide every year.

***Acknowledgments:
Thank you to all individuals (academic & non-academic) who provided valuable feedback on earlier versions of the trailer.

***Credits:
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https://CurateScience.org
Twitter: @curatescience
Media inquiries curatescience@gmail.com

Partially funded by European Commission Marie-Curie grant #793669.

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Given that I am a self-funded independent scientist, please consider donating to help save science at my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/etiennelebel