This piece by @EikoFried has been making the rounds, and with good reason. It's inspired me to get something off my chest about Coyne's association with the open science movement, such as it is, or was.http://eiko-fried.com/james-coyne-sued-me-for-cyberbullying/ …
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I attended the first meeting of SIPS (
@improvingpsych) here in Charlottesville, partly because it was easy (I live here) and also (of course) because I think it's an exciting movement that deserves real attention and consideration. That said, at some point, Coyne came up.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
After the meeting I was sitting at the bar with a prominent member of the community (who--yes--will go unnamed, sue me). This individual had a lot of experience with Coyne, and agreed with me matter-of-factly that Coyne is prone to the sorts of behaviors
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I pressed him on the ethics of even tacitly endorsing Coyne when he was aware of the tactics Coyne is perfectly happy to employ--tactics that include florid dishonesty. He replied that, even so, Coyne ultimately did more good than harm--an "ends justify the means" defense.
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It got me wondering how many people in the movement feel this way. Even now, I hear over and over things to the effect of "he often makes good points." Which *seems* to me to at least imply that his occasional legitimate contributions justify giving him attention. (Am I wrong?)
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Then I wonder what, in principle, is the difference between Coyne's brand of dishonesty and, say, faking data? And would any of us tolerate a researcher who was well known to "only occasionally" publish complete fiction, on the grounds that sometimes their research was solid?
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I'm going to go ahead and guess not. So where do we locate Coyne in relation to researchers who've been publicly documented to behave dishonestly? And how does the science reform community proceed in this case, knowing what we know?
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This is why we say #bropenscience. Some people in open science need to be called out and some even kicked out.
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