Scrutiny of Science Goes Public

We Are All Gatekeepers Now:Scrutiny of Science Goes Public Society for Scholarly Publishing Fall Educational Seminar November 7, 2012 Ivan Oransky, MD Retraction Watch Reuters Health

Science Under the Microscope The Guardian, September 13, 2012

Science Under the Microscope The New York Times, October 1, 2012

Who Mistrusts Science?From 1974 to 2010, “group differences in trustin science are largely stable…except forrespondents identifying as conservative.Conservatives began the period with thehighest trust in science, relative to liberals andmoderates, and ended the period with thelowest.” Gauchat, American Sociological Review, 2012

Who Trusts Science?77% of respondents said they trust scientiststo tell the truth, compared to less than 20%who thought the President would. Harris poll, 2006

Who Mistrusts Science? -- Irish Medical Research Council

What Fuels Mistrust of Science?The argument goes something like this:Science is self-correcting, so it takes care of itsown mistakes. And scientific fraud is rare, sofocusing on misconduct gives a distortedpicture of research that will only giveammunition to critics, who want to cast doubton subjects such as climate change andvaccine safety. Marcus and Oransky, Lab Times, 9/12

What Really Fuels Mistrust of Science? It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. People stop trusting institutions when they continue to insist “Move along, nothing to see here”, despite the stubborn persistence of misconduct. Marcus and Oransky, Lab Times, 9/12

Themes• Lessons from arsenic life• The power of blogs• Post-publication peer review, and how embracing it can promote ethical behavior

Arsenic Life http://discovermagazine.com

Anonymous Whistleblowers Step Up http://www.labtimes.org

Blogs Get Aggressive http://abnormalscienceblog.wordpress.com/

Blogs Get Aggressive

Blogs Get Aggressive http://md-anderson-cc.blogspot.com

Blogs Get Aggressive http://www.science-fraud.org/

Journals are Listening

Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch http://www.nature.com/nm/

Post-Publication Peer Review Nature (22 Dec 2011) doi:10.1038/480449a

Post-Publication Peer Review http://crossref.org/

Post-Publication Peer Review

Post-Publication Peer Review http://precedings.nature.com/

Post-Publication Peer Review

Alt Metrics http://total-impact.org/

Alt Metrics http://sciencecard.org/

Contact Info ivan-oransky@erols.com http://retractionwatch.com @ivanoransky (better)Thanks to Nancy Lapid, Reuters Health

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