NSCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Scientific Misconduct, Brain Mapping, Literature Review
26 Apr 2019
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Very competitive environment scientists exist in ; need to publish, a lot, in high-impact journals, to get tenure. He"s on a book tour ; the book isn"t peer-reviewed or anything, just his thoughts on the future of technology, etc. Personal interest (selling his work) vs. public interest (being accurate and informational). Using his authority as a scientist, even though it"s not his field. Also, the platform doesn"t allow for much fact-checking, or rigorous discussion: responsibility is a lot on the scientist here : the journalists are doing a fairly good job here, asking questions and challenging the scientist"s claims. Assumptions about knowledge: significant = important, generally. But as we can see from the interview, this is also true when the scientist traded an expertise for another: need to look at what data you"re talking about. It"s still your responsibility to present results in a way that doesn"t facilitate the conflation between the actual data and what you believe.
