Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science - Brossura

Ritchie, Stuart

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ISBN 10: 1529110645 ISBN 13: 9781529110647

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2021

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Science Fictions, 9781529110647

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dr Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and winner of the 2015 ‘Rising Star’ award from the Association for Psychological Science. He has written for The Times, Spectator, Washington Post, Wired, Literary Review and Aeon, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes The Infinite Monkey Cage, More or Less and Bringing Up Britain. His Twitter account is @StuartJRitchie.

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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 accepte

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1529110645
• ISBN 13: 9781529110647
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia