An edition of Making sense of science
(2017)
Making sense of science
separating substance from spin
by Cornelia Dean
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Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.--
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Table of Contents
We the people
What we know, and what we don't know
The belief engine
Thinking about risk
The research enterprise
What is science?
How science knows what it knows
Models
A jury of peers
Things go wrong
Misconduct
Science in court
Researchers and journalists
The universal solvent
A matter of money
Selling health
What's for supper?
Political science
Constituency of ignorance
The political environment
Taking things on faith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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