Daniele Fanelli is a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he uses advanced quantitative methods to help settle long-standing philosophical and sociological debates on the nature of science. Are all disciplines, fields and researchers equally objective (or non-objective)? Which ones are more likely to yield false results and why? How common are bias and misconduct in science and how can we prevent them?
Dates of visit: January - May 2011
Project title: Bias, misconduct and the Hierarchy of the Sciences
Project description: During his visit at CPNSS, he will review theories and empirical evidence on the Hierarchy of the Sciences hypothesis, according to which disciplines vary systematically in their level of paradigmatic development