What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias? The evidential account. Reutlinger, A. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(2):15, March, 2020.
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Biased research occurs frequently in the sciences. In this paper, I will focus on one particular kind of biased research: research that is subject to sponsorship bias. I will address the following epistemological question: what precisely is epistemically wrong (that is, unjustified) with biased research of this kind? I will defend the evidential account of epistemic wrongness: that is, research affected by sponsorship bias is epistemically wrong if and only if the researchers in question make false claims about the (degree of) evidential support of some hypothesis H by data E. I will argue that the evidential account captures the epistemic wrongness of three paradigmatic types of sponsorship bias.
@article{reutlinger_what_2020,
	title = {What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias? {The} evidential account},
	volume = {10},
	issn = {1879-4920},
	shorttitle = {What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias?},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00280-2},
	doi = {10.1007/s13194-020-00280-2},
	abstract = {Biased research occurs frequently in the sciences. In this paper, I will focus on one particular kind of biased research: research that is subject to sponsorship bias. I will address the following epistemological question: what precisely is epistemically wrong (that is, unjustified) with biased research of this kind? I will defend the evidential account of epistemic wrongness: that is, research affected by sponsorship bias is epistemically wrong if and only if the researchers in question make false claims about the (degree of) evidential support of some hypothesis H by data E. I will argue that the evidential account captures the epistemic wrongness of three paradigmatic types of sponsorship bias.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2021-02-03},
	journal = {European Journal for Philosophy of Science},
	author = {Reutlinger, Alexander},
	month = mar,
	year = {2020},
	keywords = {5 Ignorance and manufactured doubt, 8 Ignorance and funding bias, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
	pages = {15},
}

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