Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading

[Grouse]

Ritchie isn’t some crackpot science denier or conspiracy theorist working out of his mom’s basement; he’s a celebrated psychologist at King’s College London with lots of experience in debunking poorly-made research.

 

People, especially in the West, place an extraordinarily high trust in scientists – reaching over 90 percent in some countries. In the U.K., for instance, the population seems to have grown more trusting of science and its results over time.

The book, while scary and disheartening, is truth-seeking and ultimately optimistic. Ritchie doesn’t come to bury science; he comes to fix it. “The ideals of the scientific process aren’t the problem,” he writes on the last page, “the problem is the betrayal of those ideals by the way we do research in practice.”

Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading | Intellectual Takeout

Edited September 26, 2021 by Grouse