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Brain stimulation, fraud, and the RIOT Science Club
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Metascience
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Sam Westwood
Brain stimulation, fraud, and the RIOT Science Club
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Metascience Matters
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Metascience is the study of science itself: its methods, incentives, and institutions.
I’m Randy Ellis, a computational biologist and neuroscientist who cares about scientific rigor. I started Metascience Matters to explore the systemic issues that slow scientific progress, and the people working to fix them.
The show covers replication failures, research fraud, open science, and data reliability through interviews with researchers, reformers, and scientific sleuths.
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