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There is an emerging sense that science writ large is facing an unprecedented set of crises and pressures. Oft mentioned is the politicization and public contestation of climate science, nutrition research, vaccines, and the like. But there is another set of crises, less about the politicization of science and much more about doubts among scientists about the credibility of their research. At least since biomathematician John Ioannidis’s 2005 paper, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” there has been widespread anxiety about the epistemological reliability of science. Since then scientists have raised the alarm about a range of crises across a variety of fields: the reproducibility crisis, the ubiquity of questionable research practices, rising rates of retraction, high profile revelations of scientific fraud, predatory publishing, rampant conflicts of interest, and the general inadequacy of peer review. Scientists and scientific institutions have launched an array of responses: Metascientific research, mass replication experiments, new journal standards, open science frameworks aiming to enhance research transparency and data sharing, post publication peer review systems and misconduct clearinghouses like PubPeer and Retraction Watch, and even blogs and tweetstorms publicizing supposed scientific transgressions in real time. This panel invites papers probing the history, development, dimensions, and boundaries of this scientific crisis or crises; formal and informal efforts to respond; and the epistemic, practical, and institutional implications for scientific organization and especially the dilemmas and contradictions that emerge.
Mapping the Discursive Space of the Reproducibility Crisis - Nicole C Nelson, University of Wisconsin Madison
Crisis? What Crisis? Institutional Narratives of Scientific Misconduct - Felicitas Hesselmann, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
Crises in (Social) Science: Lessons from the Case of German Sociology? - Barbara Sutter, TU Munich
Science by Law: Scientific Epistemology versus Political Dominance in the Age of "Evidence-Based Research" - Paolo Parra Saiani, Università degli Studi di Genova
Transparency versus Autonomy: Meta-Science, Fields, and the Political Theory of Pure Science - David Peterson, UCLA; Aaron Panofsky, University of California, Los Angeles