An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane.
We discuss popular reactions to claim that there is a shortage of marriageable men for women with college degrees.
We discuss a recent argument between the Washington Post’s Robert Samuel and sociologist David Brady.
We discuss the case of Amy Cuddy, a researcher who rose to fame on research whose failure to replicate prompted backlash.
We discuss recent divisions in German sociology with Stephen Vaisey of Duke University and Thomas Scheffer from Goethe University.
