Don't hate the replicator, hate the game

勿恨复制器,恨游戏。

Planet Money

2026-02-28

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The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with re-enacting old experiments. Collectively, this is known as the “replication crisis.”  Economist Abel Brodeur has come up with one way to help fix this crisis: he’s invented an internationally crowdsourced surveillance system, designed to keep social scientists honest. He calls it the “Replication Games.”  Further Listening: Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? The Experiment Experiment How Much Should We Trust Economics?This episode was hosted by Mary Childs and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi. It was produced by James Sneed and Emma Peaslee, with help from Willa Rubin. It was edited by Jess Jiang, fact-checked by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, and engineered by Ko Takasugi-Czernowin. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money’s executive producer.  Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter. Listen free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below: See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • This is Planet Money from NPR.

  • Alexi Horowitz-Gazi.

  • Mary Childs.

  • Yes, you and I took a little trip up to Scenic Montreal,

  • one of the jewels of French Canada, for a little Planet Money mission.

  • Yes, we did.

  • And even though it's a little bit sad that that mission did not entail...

  • joining the maple harvest or, you know, like infiltrating a poutine cartel.

  • Mm, next time.

  • Dare I say, next time,

  • it did have much bigger implications for anybody and everybody whose life is impacted by science,

  • which I think is basically all of us.

  • I think that's right, yeah.

  • We were there to meet a guy named Abel Broder.

  • about this very energetic economics professor in his late 30s at the University of Ottawa.

  • And we found him bounding around the halls of this modernist school building in downtown Montreal.

  • He was getting ready to host an event he's become sort of famous for,

  • something called the replication games.

  • It's getting exciting now.

  • How are you feeling?