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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dean, Cornelia, author.     Subjects     Science news.     Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Research -- Political aspects.     Science in popular culture.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dean, Cornelia, author.       by title:      Making sense of scie...         MARC Display

Making sense of science : separating substance from spin / Cornelia Dean. by Dean, Cornelia, author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. Subjects Science news.   Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Research -- Political aspects.   Science in popular culture. ISBN:  9780674059696 : 0674059697 Description:  xi, 281 pages ; 22 cm Contents:  We the people -- What we know, and what we don't know -- The belief engine -- Thinking about risk -- The research enterprise -- What is science? -- How science knows what it knows -- Models -- A jury of peers -- Things go wrong -- Misconduct -- Science in court -- Researchers and journalists -- The universal solvent -- A matter of money -- Selling health -- What's for supper? -- Political science -- Constituency of ignorance -- The political environment -- Taking things on faith. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 500 De Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 500 Dean Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 500 De Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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