num_pages: 368
description: A major expos that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporary science.So much relies on science. But what if science itself cant be relied on?Medicine education psychology health parenting  wherever it really matters we look to science for advice. 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. From widely accepted theories about priming and growth mindset to claims about genetics sleep microbiotics as well as a host of drugs allergies and therapies we can trace the effects of unreliable overhyped and even fraudulent papers in austerity economics the anti-vaccination movement and dozens of bestselling books  and occasionally count the cost in human lives.Stuart Ritchie was among the first people to help expose these problems. In this vital investigation he gathers together the evidence of their full and shocking extent  and how a new reform movement within science is fighting back. Often witty yet deadly serious Science Fictions is at the vanguard of the insurgency proposing a host of remedies to save and protect this most valuable of human endeavours from itself.
language: English
title: Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
publisher: Bodley Head