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Book 2019

Making Sense of Science

2 readers

Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Published
2019
  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Political aspects
  • Science in popular culture
  • Science news
  • Research
  • Science, popular works
  • Forschung
  • Naturwissenschaften

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.--