In this episode of The Annex Sociology Podcast, we discuss a recent controversy surrounding SocArXiv’s takedown of a working paper on the effectiveness of Ivermectin in treating COVID. We speak with SocArXiv Director Philip Cohen (University of Maryland) and JP Pardo-Guerra (University of California, San Diego), who raised concerns about the paper on Twitter.
We discuss the case of Nicolas Guéguen, a professor recently charged with data fabrication, and the topic of data frabrication more generally. With Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins), Joseph Cohen (CUNY Queens College), Leslie Hinkson (Georgetown), and Gabriel Rossman
Sex is distributed unequally. We discuss an analysis by Paula England calculating a sexual GINI coefficient.
A Penn law professor comments that black students perform poorly. What are we to make of it?
We talk about urban doomsday preppers with Anna Bounds (CUNY Queens College)
