#131 – Alexander Holcombe on The Causes of The Replication Crisis

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In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Alexander Holcombe about the replication crisis, trust in science, and the causes of the replication crisis.

Alex Holcombe is a professor at the University of Sydney, who received his PhD in psychology from Harvard University in 2000. He has a strong interest in improving scientific practices and has been involved in the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science, the Free Journal Network, PLoS ONE, the WikiJournal of Science, and the creation of the tenzing.club web app to promote scientific collaboration. As well as doing meta-science, Alex conducts psychology experiments on topics such as how humans keep track of moving objects.

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Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science
@alexh@fediscience.org Holcombe (Twitter)
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Email: alex.holcombe@sydney.edu.au

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