Mary Childs

Welcome to the Reputation Games.

Thanks for being here in Montreal with us.

Let's get started.

Today we have 16 papers that are being reproduced.

Around the room, dozens of social scientists are gazing up at a bell, looking a little bit nervous.

Most of them have come from across Canada, and most of them are first-timers who now have to undergo this kind of awkward initiation rite.

I'm going to put the music because I know you guys need like, you know, a little bit of motivation, but you need to do the body movement.

Everybody has to do it.

All right.

Does it sound good?

So we do it.

I need you to do.

It's pretty easy.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money.

I'm Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi.

Today on the show, the story of one economist, how he set out to learn what exactly has broken in the way social scientists create new knowledge, and how he came up with his own daring and kind of wacky way to help fix it by building an internationally crowdsourced surveillance system to keep social scientists honest.

Okay, so the replication crisis has been a pretty big deal for almost 20 years at this point.

We've covered it on Planet Money before.

The story of how economist Abel Broder first encountered the problem and why he set out to help fix it begins back in 2011.

I had like amazing data from the CDC, which is public.