Clown world science: State of academia December 2020 | SS#16
Channel: Saving Democracy dot ca
Date: 19/12/2020

I go over the clown world that is academia in 2020 with respect to researchers, journals, universities, funding agencies, and publishers. 2021 should be interesting.

====GENERAL SAVING SCIENCE SHOW INFO====
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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Media inquiries curatescience@gmail.com

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).

To be an impartial science watchdog/whistle blower, I'm required to be independent & self-funded. If you find value in our videos & support the cause of saving science, please support the show by making a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/etiennelebel
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The Saving Science Show aims to:
► 1. Raise public awareness of academia's deeply broken academic system,
► 2. To raise  (& enforce) transparency standards at universities & government funding agencies, &
► 3. Change laws to ensure public access to publicly-funded research for the benefit of all.

#openScience #reproducibilityCrisis #replicationCrisis