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Science Fictions
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  • Published: 16 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529110647
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99
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Science Fictions

Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science

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A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporary science

'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021

Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't always be relied on?

In this vital investigation, Stuart Ritchie reveals the disturbing flaws in today's science that undermine our understanding of the world and threaten human lives. With bias, careless mistakes and even outright forgery influencing everything from austerity economics to the anti-vaccination movement, he proposes vital remedies to save and protect science - this most valuable of human endeavours - from itself.

* With a new afterword by the author *

'Thrilling... Reminds us that another world is possible' The Times, Books of the Year

'Excellent... We need better science. That's why books like this are so important' Evening Standard
  • Published: 16 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529110647
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Stuart Ritchie

Dr Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and winner of the 2015 ‘Rising Star’ award from the Association for Psychological Science. He has written for The Times, Spectator, Washington Post, Wired, Literary Review and Aeon, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes The Infinite Monkey Cage, More or Less and Bringing Up Britain. His Twitter account is @StuartJRitchie.

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