Štěpán Bahník on the Podniko podcast: How can we strengthen the credibility of science?

The new episode of the Podniko podcast features Štěpán Bahník from the Department of Management, Faculty of Business Administration, VŠE, who took part in a large international research project published in the journal Nature. The interview focuses on the so-called replication crisis: the problem that some scientific studies do not yield the same results when they are repeated.

The discussion explores the causes of this phenomenon, its impact on public trust in science and ways to improve the quality and verifiability of research. One of the key topics is the open science movement, which promotes greater transparency of research procedures, data sharing and better reproducibility of scientific findings.

The episode offers an interesting perspective on the current challenges facing scientific research and shows how new approaches can help strengthen the credibility of science in the eyes of both experts and the general public.

What will you learn in the interview?

• What is the so-called replication crisis, and why do some scientific studies fail to replicate?
• How big is the replication problem in the social sciences really?
• To what extent is the replication crisis a crisis of trust in science?
• Which practices can distort research results, and why do they happen?
• How can open science, that is, open or transparent science, help increase trust in science and its replicability?

The episode is in Czech.