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Go behind the scenes of scientific research and discover how fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, selective reporting, p-hacking, image manipulation, authorship abuse, ghostwriting, paper mills, conflicts of interest, publication pressure, and institutional reputation can affect the research record. Along the way, examine the safeguards designed to protect science, including peer review, independent replication, transparency, open data, preregistration, whistleblowing, audits, corrections, retractions, and institutional investigations.
Designed for non-specialists as well as research-minded readers, the book makes important statistical concepts easier to understand, including p-values, confidence intervals, effect sizes, false positives, multiple comparisons, sample size, overfitting, statistical significance, and the crucial difference between correlation and causation. It also explores research challenges across medicine, nutrition, psychology, clinical trials, STEM, and the social sciences.
More than an examination of scientific fraud, this is a practical handbook for stronger critical thinking. Learn how to evaluate a research paper, question dramatic headlines, recognize missing caveats, examine controls and comparison groups, spot common research red flags, compare individual studies with broader evidence, and make better judgments about when evidence deserves trust.
Thought-provoking without becoming cynical and skeptical without becoming anti-science, Science Fraud offers readers a more powerful approach to modern information: don’t automatically believe, don’t automatically dismiss, investigate the evidence. For students, journalists, educators, researchers, professionals, skeptics, science enthusiasts, and intellectually curious readers, this book is an engaging guide to understanding how science can fail and how careful readers can become much harder to fool.
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