#475 Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 19th 2021.
Dr. Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. He is interested in comparative methodology across the natural and social sciences. He is the author of books like Post-Truth, and The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience.
In this episode, we focus on The Scientific Attitude. We start by discussing the demarcation problem and the scientific method, and then go over topics like the scientific attitude; skepticism; fraud and other failures; social science; the relationship between science and politics; and if science can be prescriptive.
Time Links:
Intro
The demarcation problem
The scientific method, and the scientific attitude
Skepticism
Fraud and failure in science
The case of social science
Should science be apolitical?
Can science be prescriptive?
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