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The science replication crisis, social studies of science, and cutting a new deal.pic.twitter.com/HCArEPBoU2
You're going to run into the problem that "science is all about power" folks are mostly in favor of the power that's actually succeeded in overriding science.
Some yes, some no. It’s only a minority of SSS people who would buy into the deal, but also only a minority of lab scientists. Some of the SSS folks were/are also already on board. Example: http://www.ece.cornell.edu/people/research_and_teaching.cfm?netid=pad9 …
I think this is a throughly fascinating topic: my impression is that a lot of sociology of science (by no means all of it) was biased from the start in favour of trying to prove that science didn't have any kind of privileged epistemic ground.
I'm a big fan of Reichenbach's distinction between the context of discovery/context of justification. Investigating science as a human enterprise is crucial because scientists are humans and science is a human activity that's just as subject to whims of power as anything else.
More narrowly though, in social psych, a lot of underpowered research that didn't replicate was throughly progressive and egalitarian in nature. Power needs to be understood a lot more broadly than as a hegemonic government/capitalism.
Yes… More broadly, bad science often results when people set out to prove things they want to believe, or want other people to believe, or want other people to think they believe themselves. Too often, a study is accepted uncritically because it confirms social preferences.
I think that's exactly right. However, that calls for a nuanced and situated understanding of what the power dynamic are in different fields, instead of understanding 'power' as an all powerful generic hegemon.
Right! It’s tiresome that many STS people feel they have to end every paper with “ergo capitalismus delenda est” even when that has nothing to do with the topic. It’s like when all physics papers had to end with “and so we see that God is great and good.”
Interestingly, for fields who are meant to be reflexive and critical, there is surprisingly little analysis of what the incentives in those fields are like. Capitalism does lead to a lot of blind spots in science, but the ideology of the STS field has the same pernicious effect.
There is a literature on “social studies of STS” at a reflexive/meta level. I haven’t really looked at it; a bit more “inside baseball” than I want to go at this point.
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