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SCIENCE FICTIONS - STUART RITCHIE KARTONIERT (TB)

So much relies on science. But what if science itself can't be relied on?Medicine  education 
psychology  health  parenting - wherever it really matters  we look to science for guidance.
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.
Many widely accepted and highly influential theories and claims - about 'priming' and 'growth
mindset'  sleep and nutrition  genes and the microbiome  as well as a host of drugs  allergies
and therapies - turn out to be based on unreliable  exaggerated and even fraudulent papers. We
can trace their influence in everything from austerity economics to the anti-vaccination
movement  and occasionally count the cost of them in human lives.Stuart Ritchie has been at the
vanguard of a new reform movement within science aimed at exposing and fixing these problems.
In this vital investigation  he gathers together the evidence of their full and shocking extent
and proposes a host of remedies to save and protect this most valuable of human endeavours from
itself.

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