Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Would Legislation Make Campus Free Speech Less Free?
Around the United States, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. Bt some of the approaches may do more harm than good, argues Neal Hutchens.
Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities
The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.
Unpacking the Ethics of Research on Sexual Assault
Why does it matter if research is ethical or not? And what steps could or should have been taken to ensure that issues such as those the Australian Human Rights Commission now faces — in a case related to well-intentioned research into sexual assault — are avoided?
‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities
When researchers from countries where regulation is well developed choose to conduct ethically dubious research in countries where regulation is not as strict, it is known as “ethics dumping.” When it happened to Africa’s San people, they responded.
Three Views on Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’
A survey by Nature found that 52 percent of researchers believed there was a ‘significant reproducibility crisis’ and 38 percent said there was a ‘slight crisis.’ Here, three experts give their views on the issue.
Science and Seeking Truth Among ‘Alternative Facts’
Is Trump’s presidency part of a larger movement toward a solipsistic world? asks Peter Neal Peregrine. And if so, which solipsist gets to say what is fact and what is not? And where does that leave science?
Kenneth Arrow’s Legacy Helps Explain Election Flaws
The late Stanford professor Kenneth Arrow was considered one of the most influential economists in history with monumental and lasting contributions to the field. His work included some explanation for why election results can turn out as they do, not always the way most voters would prefer.
Keeping Government ‘Nudges’ From the Dark Side
Governments around the world have found success using the burgeoning field of behavioral science to improve the efficiency of their policies and increase citizens’ well-being. We need clear guidelines on when and how to use behavioral science in policy.
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