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028			_a: Atlantic Publlishers 7 Distributors _b.-7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c1087521 _d13/12/2018
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100			_aDean, Cornelia
245			_aMaking sense of science _b:separating substance from spin _c/Cornelia Dean
260			_a, Cambridge, Massachusetts _b:The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press _c,2017
300			_a,xi, 281 pages _c;22 cm
365			_b1199.00
505			_aPreface -- 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.
520			_aCornelia 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.-
650			_aForschung
650			_aNatural sciences
650			_aResearch -- Moral and ethical aspects.
650			_aResearch -- Political aspects.
655			_bNatural sciences
942			_cBOOK
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