Making sense of science
Subtitle: separating substance from spin
By: Cornelia Dean
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780674059696
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Political aspects; Science in popular culture; Science news; Research
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: We the people; title: What we know, and what we don't know; title: The belief engine; title: Thinking about risk; title: The research enterprise; title: What is science?; title: How science knows what it knows; title: Models; title: A jury of peers; title: Things go wrong; title: Misconduct; title: Science in court; title: Researchers and journalists; title: The universal solvent; title: A matter of money; title: Selling health; title: What's for supper?; title: Political science; title: Constituency of ignorance; title: The political environment; title: Taking things on faith.