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Stuart Ritchie: Science Fictions (Hardcover, 2020, Metropolitan Books)

So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on?

Medicine, …

It is not just that the system fails to deal with all the kinds of malpractice we've discussed. In fact, the way academic research is currently set up incentivises these problems, encouraging researchers to obsess about prestige, fame, funding and reputation at the expense of rigorous, reliable results.

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