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Science Fictions
by Stuart Ritchie
A must read for anyone who creates or consumes scientific findings. The author provides compelling root causes of the problem with science today then follows it up with equally compelling solutions that seem too obvious and simple to not have been implemented already. Seems to me like all the actors—governments, universities, non-profits, researchers and consumers of science—have all been caught up in an Abilene paradox, "where a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of many or all of the individuals in the group" (source: Wikipedia).
This is a sobering read (particularly due to the fraud that happens on medical trials), but hopefully motivates you, like it has me, to read scientific papers much more closely and never hold them to be fact.
This is a sobering read (particularly due to the fraud that happens on medical trials), but hopefully motivates you, like it has me, to read scientific papers much more closely and never hold them to be fact.