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Metropolitan Books, 2020. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendix, index, and figures. 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An insider's view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon - and how the system can be reformed. Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless - or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science - with sometimes deadly consequences. Stuart Ritchie's own work challenging an infamous psychology experiment helped spark…
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- Title Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
- Author Stuart Ritchie
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Metropolitan Books
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781250222695 / 1250222699
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Methodology, Science - Moral and ethical aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020011654
- Dewey Decimal Code 500
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- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2020, Page 0
- Library Journal, 07/01/2020, Page 74
- Publishers Weekly, 05/04/2020, Page 0
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