SS#8 - Why are professors encouraging ETHICAL junior researchers to leave academia?
Channel: Saving Democracy dot ca
Date: 2020-10-01

I cover what appears to be established professors throwing ETHICAL junior researchers under the bus, to not step on the toes of senior professors who still are NOT on board with meeting a minimum transparency standard.  For example, encouraging junior researchers to LEAVE academia so their ETHICAL PRINCIPLES can be useful ELSEWHERE, if their professor doesn't want to do transparent, proper science.  A taboo topic, I explore why established professors are NOT pushing back against such intellectually bankrupt senior researchers, instead encouraging junior researchers to leave academia or just patiently wait until such corrupt senior researchers retire.

If an established/senior professor does NOT want to do research TRANSPARENTLY, then it is THEY, not junior researchers, who should be FORCED to LEAVE academia!

For full transparency, my full email exchanges with established professors Nosek and Poldrack, so that anyone can verify that I have not mischaracterized their positions on whether ALL RESEARCHERS should be obligated to meet a MINIMUM level of TRANSPARENCY in conducting and reporting their research:
► Dr. Brian Nosek: https://etiennelebel.com/documents/ss/ss8/full-email-exchange-Nosek.pdf
Nosek bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nosek
► Dr. Russell Poldrack: https://etiennelebel.com/documents/ss/ss8/full-email-exchange-Poldrack.pdf
Poldrack bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poldrack

Rogue vision science researcher blog post: https://mythsofvisionscience.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/2034/


Dr. Etienne LeBel bio: 
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.

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Guiding diagram that visually depicts the environment in which professors/academic researchers typically operate: https://etiennelebel.com/documents/ss/broken-ecosystem-diagram-SS-logo-v2.png

Collection of peer-reviewed evidence of global & systemic problems w/ the TRANSPARENCY & REPRODUCIBILITY/REPLICABILITY of academic research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT74Ok8whWCKcyxIyherYfyoRnhtAuV_nYJBFOZHlns/edit# (also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis).

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