:separating substance from spin Dean, Cornelia creator text Natural sciences xx Cambridge, Massachusetts :The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ,2017 9999 monographic und

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,xi, 281 pages ;22 cm 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.- Preface -- Introduction. -- 1. We the people: What we know, and what we don't know -- The belief engine -- Thinking about risk. -- 2. The research enterprise: What is science? -- How science knows what it knows -- Models -- A jury of peers. -- 3. Things go wrong: Misconduct -- Science in court -- Researchers and journalists. -- 4. The universal solvent: A matter of money -- Selling health -- What's for supper? -- 5. Political science: Constituency of ignorance -- The political environment -- Taking things on faith. -- Conclusion. -- Appendix: Trustworthy, untrustworthy, or irrelevant? -- Notes -- Furhter reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index. /Cornelia Dean Forschung Natural sciences Research -- Moral and ethical aspects Research -- Political aspects 500 DEA 9780674059696 : Atlantic Publlishers 7 Distributors .-7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 181219 20190122151002.0