In the second episode of Science in the Grey Zone we present questions that arose during a roundtable recorded in July 2024 at the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) - EASST-4S in Amsterdam. This episode will specifically explore what a retraction really means and whether it is an effective way to correct the scientific record.
We’ll be hearing from Willem Halffman, Bart Penders, Nicole Nelson, Sergio Sismondo, Nicolas Rasmussen, and Melina Antonakaki.
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Speakers (listed in order of appearance):
Willem Halffman. Senior lecturer in Science & Technology Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and associate member of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) at Edinburgh University.
Bart Penders. Associate Professor in ‘Biomedicine and Society’ at Maastricht University, Senior Fellowship at RWTH’s Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Cultures of Research’
Sergio Sismondo. Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Canada, and editor of the journal Social Studies of Science
Nicole Nelson. Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Melina Antonakaki. Ph.D. candidate in STS at the Technical University of Munich, developing a dissertation project exploring how visions and applications of regenerative biomedicine obtain social credibility in different political cultures; research on the scientific controversy and replication experiments of the STAP cell phenomenon.
Nicolas Rasmussen. Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, Editor in Chief of the Journal of the History of Biology
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This podcast has been financially supported by 'NanoBubbles: how, when and why does science fail to correct itself', a project that has received Synergy grant funding from the European Research Council (ERC), within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, grant agreement no. 951393.
