Science Fictions Audiobook by Stuart Ritchie

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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Science Fictions Subtitle: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth Categories: Philosophy, Science Author: Stuart Ritchie Narrator: Stuart Ritchie Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release date: 07-21-2020 Language: English Summary: 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 what is now widely known as the “replication crisis,” the realization that supposed scientific truths are often just plain wrong. Now, he reveals the very human biases, misunderstandings, and deceptions that undermine the scientific endeavor: from contamination in science labs to the secret vaults of failed studies that nobody gets to see; from outright cheating with fake data to the more common, but still ruinous, temptation to exaggerate mediocre results for a shot at scientific fame. Yet Science Fictions is far from a counsel of despair. #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.