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Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong.
The Problem with Science explains in nontechnical language how such fallacy occurs, how it gets published in respected scientific journals, and how it can largely be avoided.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I. BACKGROUND AND FACILITATORS OF THE CRISIS
- Chapter 1: Publication Bias
- Chapter 2: False Positive Results and a Nontechnical Overview of their Modeling
- Chapter 3: Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) and their Devastating Scientific Effects
- Chapter 4: A Few Case Studies of QRP Driven Irreproducibility Effects
- Chapter 5: The Return of Pathological Science (actually it never went away)
- Part II. APPROACHES FOR IDENTIFYING IRREPRODUCIBLE FINDINGS
- Chapter 6: The Replication Process
- Chapter 7: Multiple-Study Replication Initiatives
- Chapter 8: Damage Control for Learning that One's Study Failed to Replicate
- PART III: STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC RESULTS
- Chapter 9: Publishing Issues and their Impact upon Reproducibility
- Chapter 10: Preregistration, Data Sharing, and Other Salutary Behaviors
- Chapter 11: A (Very) Few Concluding Thoughts
About the author
R. Barker Bausell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he served as a research methodologist and biostatistician on the faculties of both the schools of medicine and nursing for over 30 years. He has authored 14 scientifically related books, and founded and served for 33 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the refereed medical evaluation journal Evaluation & the Health Professions.
Summary
Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong. The Problem with Science explains in nontechnical language how such fallacy occurs, how it gets published in respected scientific journals, and how it can largely be avoided.
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Bausell, the author of a number of books, brings a broad perspective, across many disciplines beyond only psychology, to the story he tells so engagingly ... My conclusion is that Bausell gives us a valuable, wide-ranging and well-informed history, progress report, and agenda for the Open Science project.
