This should be an interesting event with Jacob Stegenga. Online and open to. You just need to preregister. Link in poster and in comment below.

Really, Google? Really?

Everyone is falling in line in the obvious truth here. But don't let them conceal the details. What was the project? Was it project DEFUSE? Who funded it? NIH? NIAID? Who covered it up? What caused the entire scientific community to endorse the claim that the truth was ...

Public talk on Moral-Epistemic duties in Model Building by @ewinsberg.bsky.social Fine, I’ll cycle up Castle Hill on this occasion #Philsci

This is a slightly self indulgent post, but if you have used anything written by myself and Stephanie Harvard, or the movie "moral models" in one of your classes, could you note so below? I would appreciate it. (Also if you know of someone else who hasn't posted).

"Science, which we may understand broadly as the natural, social and human sciences, depends on gatekeeping to maintain its epistemic credentials. It must keep out pretenders while remaining porous to outside-the-box insights and to criticisms of its own shibboleths."

Eric Winsberg@ewinsberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Katherine Dormandy and I are officially editing a special issue of *Synthese* on Gatekeeping in Science. The call for papers is attached. It should be a fun issue. link.springer.com/collections/...

Great framing for a special issue #metascience #philsci #histsci #sts

Eric Winsberg@ewinsberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Katherine Dormandy and I are officially editing a special issue of *Synthese* on Gatekeeping in Science. The call for papers is attached. It should be a fun issue. link.springer.com/collections/...

Synthese special issue CFP gatekeeping in science. Editors: Katherine Dormandy & Eric Winsberg @ewinsberg.bsky.social Deadline 25 April 25 #philsci #philsky link.springer.com/collections/...

Katherine Dormandy and I are officially editing a special issue of *Synthese* on Gatekeeping in Science. The call for papers is attached. It should be a fun issue. link.springer.com/collections/...

There's a bit of a grad seminar going on under this post. Such good value. Following with interest...

David Papineau@davidpapineau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yes of course politics can influence science in many acceptable ways. But what but it shouldn’t do—but often does—is affect thresholds for acceptance and promulgation of theories. Here’s a paper by Rivkah Hatchwell and me. www.davidpapineau.co.uk/uploads/1/8/...

Come for @DrJBhattacharya @Ayjchan @TracyBethHoeg and @MartinKulldorff. All heroes of the pandemic. Stay for yours truly.