I realise that this was mentioned in the comments of my previous post, but I thought I would just advertise that I spent a bit of time last Friday chatting with Sam Gregson, who runs the Bad Boy of Science youtube channel. The topic was, unsurprisingly, the furor over Patrick Brown’s claims that he had to satisfy a particular narrative in order to get his paper published in Nature and the video is at the end of this post.
It was arranged at relatively short notice and we did it in one sitting, as I had to get to a farewell for someone who was retiring and then to a barbecue for our new PhD students. I’ve listened back to most of it and I didn’t think I made any howlers, but there are a couple of places where I might have phrased things slightly differently had I had a bit more time to think.
