An insider's view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon - and how the system can be reformed.
Science is how we understand the world.
Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless - or, worse, badly misleading.
Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
Metropolitan Books Science fictions: how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth, hardcover/stuart ritchie
