Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
New Books in the History of Science
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Public Mistrust and Science and So On
Daniel Altschuler: Public mistrust of science is ugly and a hindrance to vaccine campaigns. He says we don't, as a species, have a very good understanding of risk and reward when it comes to the consumption of medical information. The best way to falsify a hypothesis is to make sure that you know what you're talking about - which requires some mental acrobatics for scientists. But i would say on the public side, what's going on is an odd sort of logic where one pieceinformation beats 100. And also because it has been the dominant theme of our lives for two years,. he adds.
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