Glass walls signify "transparency of communication" throughout science in what the Swiss government has dubbed its "digital consulate," opening 10 October in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For now, the goal-priming controversy should not be seen as a refutation of anyone's work but rather as an impetus to address two problems in the field of psychology: how best to elicit and measure intriguing properties of the unconscious and, more broadly, how to ensure that the tenets of science — transparency, skepticism and self-correction — manifest themselves in its conduct.
Because openness and transparency are the hallmarks of science and research, he's uploaded an extended version of his original presentation in two parts to YouTube called "The Presentation SeaWorld Asked Not to be Recorded".
"We're concerned about the lack of transparency in science … and a possible ethical breach in not disclosing potential conflicts of interest in an area with important public policy implications," says Kert Davies, Executive Director of CIC in Alexandria, Virginia.
Despite repeated calls over the last century from investigative panels, scientists and legislators for greater transparency and use of science-based models to guide the agency's work, little has changed.
I firmly believe that openness and transparency is in the best interests of science.
Historically, the noblest aspect of science is its supposed transparency in presenting all sides of a story.
He also cites a poor history of transparency in climate science, though others argue many climate records and the tools to analyse them have been public for years.
The result, critics charge, is a complete lack of transparency around the science that companies have conducted on their GE products.
Epistemic transparency demands a descriptive correspondence between philosophical accounts of science and scientific practice.
