Showing papers by "Larry Ray published in 2019"
TL;DR: Meta-research that establishes an understanding of the factors that determine researcher behavior is urgently needed and can be used to implement and iteratively improve measures that incentivize researchers to apply the highest standards, resulting in high-quality data.
Abstract: Background: A lack of data reproducibility (“reproducibility crisis”) has been extensively debated across many academic disciplines.
Main body: Although a reproducibility crisis is widely perceived, conclusive data on the scale of the problem and the underlying reasons are largely lacking. The debate is primarily focused on methodological issues. However, examples such as the use of misidentified cell lines illustrate that the availability of reliable methods does not guarantee good practice. Moreover, research is often characterised by a lack of established methods. Despite the crucial importance of researcher conduct, research and conclusive data on the determinants of researcher behaviour are widely missing.
Conclusion: Meta-research is urgently needed that establishes an understanding of the factors that determine researcher behaviour. This knowledge can then be used to implement and iteratively improve measures, which incentivise researchers to apply the highest standards resulting in high quality data.
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TL;DR: In 2018, the Polish ruling party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Justice and Law) introduced the "anti-defamation law" which prohibited claims that "the Polish Nation" was responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The politics of Holocaust memory in Poland has for many decades been an arena of dispute and, at times, bitter public controversy, as with the disputes over the Auschwitz Carmelite convent in the 1980s and Jedwabne in the 2000s. The Nazi German occupation in Poland had destroyed the largest pre-War Jewish population in the world and six extermination camps were placed in occupied Polish territory. While post-War Poland inevitably became a major site of Holocaust memory and commemoration this has always been entangled with contemporary Polish and international politics, both in the Communist and post-Communist periods. These issues were again thrown into sharp relief in January 2018 when the Polish ruling party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Justice and Law) introduced the ‘anti-defamation law’ prohibiting claims that ‘the Polish Nation’was responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes. It was initially made a criminal offence, with up to three years imprisonment, to accuse Poles of complicity in Nazi war crimes. The law asserted extra-territoriality and ‘applies throughout the world, regardless of local laws.’ The ensuing outcry in Europe, Israel and the US continues – for example, under the Twitter hashtag #PolishDeathCamps there is widespread condemnation of the defamation laws, and in one post the Simon Wiesenthal Centre issued a travel advisory for Jews urging them to limit their visits to Poland following ‘Poland’s government campaign to change the historical truth by denying Polish complicity in the Nazi atrocities.’ In May 2018, the law was modified to render ‘defamation’ a civil, not a criminal offence, although under the PiS government controversies continue to arise – for example over the compromise in November 2018 between President Andrzej Duda and the neo-Nazi Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR (National Radical Camp) that allowed the latter along with other European Nazis, to follow the Independence Day march. There are multiple issues here of how the Holocaust is represented and remembered and, indeed, of historical accuracy vs denial in a European context where antisemitism is mobilized again on the populist far-right (and some sections of the left). The issue of memory and commemoration here is essential to Jewish identity since the curse Y’mach sh’mo v’zichrono (may his name and memory be erased) has already befallen millions killed without a trace and is at stake in distortion and minimization of the Holocaust. The contributions to this Special Issue address various aspects of memory politics that
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TL;DR: Agnes Grunwald-Spier was born in 1944 in the Budapest Ghetto, is a Founder Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and has occupied many other public roles as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Agnes Grunwald-Spier was born in 1944 in the Budapest Ghetto, is a Founder Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and has occupied many other public roles. However, she says that ‘all my life ...
TL;DR: McLellan as discussed by the authors is a Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kent, who has been one of the lead...
Abstract: David McLellan, interviewed here, is a Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Kent. Since the 1970s he has been one of the lead...