Re:A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
by bryze on Friday December 07, 2012 @01:53PM
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To clarify. The bullet points are listed under "Marks of Good Science". Holding a degree does not mean your publications or claims are good science. It's fine if Ted wants to only have degree holders as speakers, but they should be clear that it's a bias they've chosen, not "good science".
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Re:A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
by fatbird on Friday December 07, 2012 @02:08PM
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They're organizers of a conference, not academics. If you require them to replicate the experiment to prove it's good science, you're crippling them. It's perfectly appropriate for them to apply conservative heuristics to make their editorial load manageable, and a good heuristic is "has the appropriate academic credentials."
They're popularizers, not the cutting edge.