Theo Von

I've had a couple in nature, a couple in science, and I feel immensely blessed for that. Shon was publishing 12 papers a year in nature and science. And at some point, people start looking more closely at their data, okay? And what happened? They saw that the random noise plots, random should be random, right? You don't need to be a scientist or a genius to understand that random should be random.

I've had a couple in nature, a couple in science, and I feel immensely blessed for that. Shon was publishing 12 papers a year in nature and science. And at some point, people start looking more closely at their data, okay? And what happened? They saw that the random noise plots, random should be random, right? You don't need to be a scientist or a genius to understand that random should be random.

He was so lazy that he was replotting the random noise in two different experiments. You can't get the same random noise in two different experiments. So there are bad apples like him, he's gone now, but most scientists are trying to get it right. And yet there's this thing that we have to constantly check ourselves on. This is why you have to, what we call blind the data.

He was so lazy that he was replotting the random noise in two different experiments. You can't get the same random noise in two different experiments. So there are bad apples like him, he's gone now, but most scientists are trying to get it right. And yet there's this thing that we have to constantly check ourselves on. This is why you have to, what we call blind the data.

He was so lazy that he was replotting the random noise in two different experiments. You can't get the same random noise in two different experiments. So there are bad apples like him, he's gone now, but most scientists are trying to get it right. And yet there's this thing that we have to constantly check ourselves on. This is why you have to, what we call blind the data.

You look at it, not knowing what condition you're looking at. This is why replication is so key and the big problem in science. And I do think this new administration cares about this. It's hard to get a job as a professor for replicating work. Everyone wants to see the new thing. So a PhD student comes into my lab, they want to study something.

You look at it, not knowing what condition you're looking at. This is why replication is so key and the big problem in science. And I do think this new administration cares about this. It's hard to get a job as a professor for replicating work. Everyone wants to see the new thing. So a PhD student comes into my lab, they want to study something.

You look at it, not knowing what condition you're looking at. This is why replication is so key and the big problem in science. And I do think this new administration cares about this. It's hard to get a job as a professor for replicating work. Everyone wants to see the new thing. So a PhD student comes into my lab, they want to study something.

We rarely say, oh, let's go do what someone else did and make sure they're right. No, you pick something new. So a lot of mistakes of past get kind of baked into the field. And this is what happened in the Alzheimer's field. This is why, you know, one mistake, which probably was somebody outright fudging as well, making stuff up, kind of get woven into the lineage.

We rarely say, oh, let's go do what someone else did and make sure they're right. No, you pick something new. So a lot of mistakes of past get kind of baked into the field. And this is what happened in the Alzheimer's field. This is why, you know, one mistake, which probably was somebody outright fudging as well, making stuff up, kind of get woven into the lineage.

We rarely say, oh, let's go do what someone else did and make sure they're right. No, you pick something new. So a lot of mistakes of past get kind of baked into the field. And this is what happened in the Alzheimer's field. This is why, you know, one mistake, which probably was somebody outright fudging as well, making stuff up, kind of get woven into the lineage.

Then other papers get published more easily. And then lo and behold, 25 years later, we say, we don't have a single good treatment for Alzheimer's. Best thing you can do is get good sleep. There's a little study out today about creatine maybe helping, but we're just nipping around the corners of this extremely important problem.

Then other papers get published more easily. And then lo and behold, 25 years later, we say, we don't have a single good treatment for Alzheimer's. Best thing you can do is get good sleep. There's a little study out today about creatine maybe helping, but we're just nipping around the corners of this extremely important problem.

Then other papers get published more easily. And then lo and behold, 25 years later, we say, we don't have a single good treatment for Alzheimer's. Best thing you can do is get good sleep. There's a little study out today about creatine maybe helping, but we're just nipping around the corners of this extremely important problem.

I must say, and this is not for political correctness, listen, I'm a tenured professor at Stanford, so I don't have to worry about quote unquote losing my job.

I must say, and this is not for political correctness, listen, I'm a tenured professor at Stanford, so I don't have to worry about quote unquote losing my job.

I must say, and this is not for political correctness, listen, I'm a tenured professor at Stanford, so I don't have to worry about quote unquote losing my job.

I mean, there are ways you can lose your job even with tenure, but I just want to say with all the bad things about science, the Wakefield thing, the Alzheimer's thing, the replication crisis, the lack of incentive for people to replicate work, I do have to say something very important.

I mean, there are ways you can lose your job even with tenure, but I just want to say with all the bad things about science, the Wakefield thing, the Alzheimer's thing, the replication crisis, the lack of incentive for people to replicate work, I do have to say something very important.

I mean, there are ways you can lose your job even with tenure, but I just want to say with all the bad things about science, the Wakefield thing, the Alzheimer's thing, the replication crisis, the lack of incentive for people to replicate work, I do have to say something very important.