SS#9 - Prominent transparency advocate AGAINST minimum transparency due to competing interests?
Channel: Saving Democracy dot ca
Date: 2020-10-19

I try to understand why scientists would be AGAINST minimum transparency, which is a core ethical principle.  I go over a new development that suggests a potential reason why Nosek may still be against a MINIMUM transparency level.

Follow-up to SS#8 wherein I made the case that, to ensure we’re accountable to the public, we ALL need to take a STRONG stance AGAINST (1) any researcher who does NOT meet a minimum transparency level in their research OR WORSE (2) any researcher who does NOT LET their grad students do transparent, proper science (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mitDwUDhbI ).

I received considerable pushback from academics, which is even more damning: Think about how this looks to the public (who are watching & increasingly becoming aware): They’re giving billions of dollars for research to be done, and researchers doing that research are childishly attacking someone who simply wants ALL researchers to meet a MINIMUM transparency level!? (embarrassing)


Links to full exchange of pushback received:
#3 https://twitter.com/LydiaManiatis/status/1313915457645182986
#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mitDwUDhbI (comments section)
#1 https://twitter.com/yannick_morvan/status/1312119161800192002
Honorable mention: https://twitter.com/max_bertolero/status/1312084747884134402

Other links/resources I cite:
► Nosek papers: https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/papers/
► Nosek disclosures re: his implicit bias speaking fees (July 2019): https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1146050796527792128 
► Netherlands' Research Integrity Code of Conduct
https://assets.tue.nl/fileadmin/content/universiteit/Over_de_universiteit/integriteit/Netherlands%20Code%20of%20Conduct%20for%20Research%20Integrity%202018.pdf 

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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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