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The Cost of correctness (with Matt Kaplan)
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Big Biology, Episode 151, Hosted by Marty Martin and Cameron Ghalambor
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Science writer Matt Kaplan discusses researchers whose ideas met institutional resistance, including Ignaz Semmelweis and Katalin Karikó. Drawing on his book I Told You So!, he considers how scientific incentives and organizational structures shape acceptance of new findings, and what reforms might better support high-risk research.
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Ignaz SemmelweisKatalin Karikóscientific incentivesorganizational structuresacceptance of new findingshigh-risk researchI Told You So!Matt Kaplan
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