
Solutions: Open Science
James Corbett follows up his earlier film The Crisis of Science, which catalogued problems like faulty peer review, publication bias, and corporate-funded research, by asking what a fix would actually look like. Narrated over documents, studies, and graphics, the film lays out the open science movement: pre-registration of study designs before data collection begins, open-access publishing that bypasses paywalled journals, public data repositories, and post-publication peer review conducted in the open rather than behind closed doors. Corbett walks through specific proposals and existing projects already trying these methods, weighing whether transparency alone can counter the incentives that produced the crisis in the first place, including funding pressure and career-driven publish-or-perish culture. The tone is skeptical of institutional science as currently practiced but constructive rather than purely critical, treating open science as a practical remedy rather than a conspiracy theory. It functions as the second half of an argument, useful mainly to viewers who have already seen the problems it is answering.