research ethics
11 posts
We discuss recent charges of researcher misconduct against for failing to clear his Sokal Squared hoax with his school's institutional review board.
This week, The Annex sits down with Brian McCabe of Georgetown University. Brian is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth Community and the Politics of Homeownership (2016, Oxford University Press). We discuss homeownership policy in the United States. Also, researcher misconduct charges were levied against one author of the Sokal Squared hoax, and how to improve the ASA […]
Joe, Leslie, and Christine Percheski (Northwestern University) discuss the story of He Jiankui, a Chinese professor who claimed to have gene-edited babies to make them resistant to HIV. They discuss the research ethics problems presented by this research, but also the disturbing implications of a technology whose development seems immanent.
This week, The Annex sits down with Christine Percheski of Northwestern University to discuss her recent research on the dissolution of marriages and cohabitation unions among parents. Christine and her colleague, Jess M. Meyer, recently co-published two articles on the topic. The first is a 2017 article in PLOS One, “Health behaviors and union dissolution […]
Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.
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
This week, we talk to Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College Park. Philip currently directs the ASA Section on the Family, Contexts, and SocArXiv. He is also set to publish a new book, Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else that Makes Families Great and Terrible, from the University […]
This week, we talk to David Peterson from Northwestern University (31:22). David is a sociologist of knowledge and science, and his research compares the scientific practices of natural and social scientists. He authored a 2015 American Sociological Review article, “All that is Solid: Bench-Building at the Frontiers of Two Experimental Sciences” Also, […]
This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and Consumption. She is also author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press). We talk about her upcoming book on bottle service at clubs […]
