Freakonomics Radio

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  • Summary

  • Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. To get every show in our network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts at http://apple.co/SiriusXM.
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Episodes
  • Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
    Jan 2 2025

    Probably not — the incentives are too strong. But a few reformers are trying. We check in on their progress, in an update to an episode originally published last year. (Part 2 of 2)

    • SOURCES:
      • Max Bazerman, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.
      • Leif Nelson, professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
      • Brian Nosek, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and executive director at the Center for Open Science.
      • Ivan Oransky, distinguished journalist-in-residence at New York University, editor-in-chief of The Transmitter, and co-founder of Retraction Watch.
      • Joseph Simmons, professor of applied statistics and operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
      • Uri Simonsohn, professor of behavioral science at Esade Business School.
      • Simine Vazire, professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne and editor-in-chief of Psychological Science.

    • RESOURCES:
      • "How a Scientific Dispute Spiralled Into a Defamation Lawsuit," by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (The New Yorker, 2024).
      • "The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers," by Noam Scheiber (The New York Times, 2023).
      • "They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?" by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (The New Yorker, 2023).
      • "Evolving Patterns of Extremely Productive Publishing Behavior Across Science," by John P.A. Ioannidis, Thomas A. Collins, and Jeroen Baas (bioRxiv, 2023).
      • "Hindawi Reveals Process for Retracting More Than 8,000 Paper Mill Articles," (Retraction Watch, 2023).
      • "Exclusive: Russian Site Says It Has Brokered Authorships for More Than 10,000 Researchers," (Retraction Watch, 2019).
      • "How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data," by Daniele Fanelli (PLOS One, 2009).
      • Lifecycle Journal.

    • EXTRAS:
      • "Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
      • "Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1," by Freakonomics Radio (2012).
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)
    Dec 26 2024

    Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. In a series originally published in early 2024, we talk to whistleblowers, reformers, and a co-author who got caught up in the chaos. (Part 1 of 2)

    • SOURCES:
      • Max Bazerman, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.
      • Leif Nelson, professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
      • Brian Nosek, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and executive director at the Center for Open Science.
      • Joseph Simmons, professor of applied statistics and operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
      • Uri Simonsohn, professor of behavioral science at Esade Business School.
      • Simine Vazire, professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne and editor-in-chief of Psychological Science.

    • RESOURCES:
      • "More Than 10,000 Research Papers Were Retracted in 2023 — a New Record," by Richard Van Noorden (Nature, 2023).
      • "Data Falsificada (Part 1): 'Clusterfake,'" by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn (Data Colada, 2023).
      • "Fabricated Data in Research About Honesty. You Can't Make This Stuff Up. Or, Can You?" by Nick Fountain, Jeff Guo, Keith Romer, and Emma Peaslee (Planet Money, 2023).
      • Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop, by Max Bazerman (2022).
      • "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty," by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn (Data Colada, 2021).
      • "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant," by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn (Psychological Science, 2011).

    • EXTRAS:
      • "Why Do We Cheat, and Why Shouldn’t We?" by No Stupid Questions (2023).
      • "Is Everybody Cheating These Days?" by No Stupid Questions (2021).
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
    Dec 23 2024

    David Eagleman upends myths and describes the vast possibilities of a brainscape that even neuroscientists are only beginning to understand. Steve Levitt interviews him in this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire.

    • SOURCES:
      • David Eagleman, professor of cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University and C.E.O. of Neosensory.

    • RESOURCES:
      • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, by David Eagleman (2020).
      • "Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains," by David Eagleman and Don Vaughn (TIME, 2020).
      • "Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes," by Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, and David Eagleman (PLoS One, 2015).
      • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman (2009).
      • The vOICe app.
      • Neosensory.

    • EXTRAS:
      • "Feeling Sound and Hearing Color," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
      • "What’s Impacting American Workers?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
      • "This Is Your Brain on Podcasts," by Freakonomics Radio (2016).
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    48 mins

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