Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science - Softcover

Ritchie, Stuart

 
9781529110647: Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529110645 ISBN 13: 9781529110647
Verlag: Vintage, 2021

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'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021
Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't always be relied on?

In this vital investigation, Stuart Ritchie reveals the disturbing flaws in today's science that undermine our understanding of the world and threaten human lives. With bias, careless mistakes and even outright forgery influencing everything from austerity economics to the anti-vaccination movement, he proposes vital remedies to save and protect science - this most valuable of human endeavours - from itself.

* With a new afterword by the author *

'Thrilling... Reminds us that another world is possible' The Times, Books of the Year

'Excellent... We need better science. That's why books like this are so important' Evening Standard

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and winner of the 2015 ‘Rising Star’ award from the Association for Psychological Science. He has written for The Times, Spectator, Washington Post, Wired, Literary Review and Aeon, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes The Infinite Monkey Cage, More or Less and Bringing Up Britain. His Twitter account is @StuartJRitchie.

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Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding of all of these fields and more. While the scientific method will always be our best and only way of knowing about the world, in reality the current system of funding and publishing science not only fails to safeguard against scientists' inescapable biases and foibles, it actively encourages them. Many widely accepte

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529110645
ISBN 13 
9781529110647
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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