Calling Bullshit 8.1: What Motivates Scientists?
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- Scientists are not purely seeking knowledge; like anyone else, they are also pursuing fame and fortune. If we can understand the incentives that scientists face, we can better understand why they do what they do.
May 17, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
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Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7
... no one commenting the class anymore ?
We are not all epistemically sullied. Motivations aren't inherently corrupting.
is this an academic version of likes (most social media), contributions (e.g. patreon), retweets (twitter) and comments (articulated attention responses)?
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like anyone else?
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I think they should think a little more about science is not just a lone monastic pursuit but must be also be explained to the larger community including all people. I call bullshit here because science communication and science research are not mutually exclusive but BOTH are required of the scientist (the false dichotomy fallacy if you want to get pompous about it).
Scientists are no different than pigeons in a Skinner box. They've long learned that if they press the lever (e.g., submit this or that kind of manuscript, or apply for this or that kind of grant), they get the pellet. Operant conditioning without the pigeon (scientist) ever asking themselves whether the box they find themselves in is just a spinning wheel. I recently told a student to not address a reviewer comment because the reviewer's comment was ridiculous. I probably cost her a publication in the name of helping her appreciate what good science is and how not to conform to the group. Unless you're discovering electricity or DNA, for example, if you want to be a big shot in science, you're gonna have to at some point sell your soul and play the game. Christopher Reeves pretty much said the same thing when looking for a cure, that the reason why a cure hasn't come about is because scientists are too busy just trying to be rock stars and advance their careers.
pretty much