Making Sense of Science : : Separating Substance from Spin / / Cornelia Dean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Dean, Cornelia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. We the People --; 2. The Research Enterprise --; 3. Things Go Wrong --; 4. The Universal Solvent --; 5. Political Science --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Trustworthy, Untrustworthy, or Irrelevant? --; Notes --; Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674978980; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674978980?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cornelia Dean.

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.