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240Publishers are signing transformative agreements with different research institutions and funding bodies across the world. These agreements establish that the institution or funder makes a block payment in exchange for an annual quota of OA papers allowing their affiliated authors to publish OA in an agreed list of journals, at no extra cost to the individual author. This is a step towards the transformation of these journals into a Gold (commercial) Open Access regime. In January 2023, the mem…Read more
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259The Psychologist’s Green ThumbPhilosophy of Science. forthcoming.The ‘psychologist’s green thumb’ refers to the argument that an experimenter needs an indeterminate set of skills to successfully replicate an effect. This argument is sometimes invoked by psychological researchers to explain away failures of independent replication attempts of their work. In this paper, I assess the psychologist’s green thumb as a candidate explanation for individual replication failure and argue that it is potentially costly for psychology as a field. I also present other, mor…Read more
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418Perspectives on Scientific ErrorRoyal Society Open Science 10 (7): 230448. 2023.Theoretical arguments and empirical investigations indicate that a high proportion of published findings do not replicate and are likely false. The current position paper provides a broad perspective on scientific error, which may lead to replication failures. This broad perspective focuses on reform history and on opportunities for future reform. We organize our perspective along four main themes: institutional reform, methodological reform, statistical reform and publishing reform. For each th…Read more
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Cambridge UniversityDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science, St John's CollegeDoctoral student
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Social Science |