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An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific outcomes can’t be relied upon – and the way the system could be reformed.
Science is how we perceive the world. But failures in peer evaluation and errors in statistics have rendered a surprising variety of scientific research ineffective – or, worse, badly deceptive. Such errors have distorted our data in fields as wide-ranging as medication, physics, vitamin, schooling, genetics, economics, and the seek for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the present system of analysis funding and publication not solely fails to safeguard us from blunders however actively encourages dangerous science – with typically lethal penalties.
Stuart Ritchie’s personal work difficult an notorious psychology experiment helped spark what’s now extensively referred to as the “replication disaster,” the belief that supposed scientific truths are sometimes simply plain flawed. Now, he reveals the very human biases, misunderstandings, and deceptions that undermine the scientific endeavor: from contamination in science labs to the key vaults of failed research that no one will get to see; from outright dishonest with faux information to the extra frequent, however nonetheless ruinous, temptation to magnify mediocre outcomes for a shot at scientific fame.
But Science Fictions is much from a counsel of despair. Fairly, it’s a protection of the scientific methodology in opposition to the pressures and perverse incentives that lead scientists to bend the principles. By illustrating the numerous ways in which scientists go flawed, Ritchie offers us the data we have to spot doubtful analysis and factors the way in which to reforms that would make science reliable as soon as once more.
Writer : Metropolitan Books (7 December 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250841860
ISBN-13 : 978-1250841865
Merchandise Weight : 417 g
Dimensions : 13.67 x 2.08 x 20.96 cm