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Science Fictions
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2020
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16 editions
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Intelligence: All That Matters
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2015
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6 editions
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Who Will Get My Money When I Die?: The concise guide to making your Will and reducing the impact of Inheritance Tax on your Estate
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Fiduciary Duties: Directors and Employees
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2013
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“Science, the discipline in which we should find the harshest scepticism, the most pin-sharp rationality and the hardest-headed empiricism, has become home to a dizzying array of incompetence, delusion, lies and self-deception.”
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
“To give Kahneman his due, he later admitted that he’d made a mistake in overemphasising the scientific certainty of priming effects. ‘The experimental evidence for the ideas I presented in that chapter was significantly weaker than I believed when I wrote it,’ he commented six years after the publication of Thinking, Fast and Slow. ‘This was simply an error: I knew all I needed to know to moderate my enthusiasm … but I did not think it through.’14 But the damage had already been done: millions of people had been informed by a Nobel Laureate that they had ‘no choice’ but to believe in those studies.”
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
“As if all the stories of the contamination of the scientific literature, the waste, the corrosive effect on trust and even the deaths aren’t bad enough, here’s that terrifying thought again: these are just the ones we know about. Could it be that the fraudsters we haven’t caught are smarter, more cunning and more dangerous than any of those covered in this chapter? Many scientific fraudsters, after all, are exposed not by data sleuths or by scanning papers for faked images, but by whistleblowers who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to spot something suspect. It’s overwhelmingly likely that some fraudsters exist who have evaded such detection, who have concealed their misdeeds more effectively and produced fake science that doesn’t raise any questions. It’s entirely possible that we’ll never find them.”
― Science Fictions
― Science Fictions
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