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Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

Stuart Ritchie

Psychologist Stuart Ritchie reveals how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype corrupt modern scientific research, and what must be done to restore integrity to science.

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10 parts, about 28 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Discover how outright fraud, publication bias, negligence, and media hype compromise the reliability of modern scientific research
  • Understand why academic publication metrics and grant competition create perverse incentives that systematically reward sloppy methodology
  • Learn practical structural reforms, from Registered Reports to open data, that can restore integrity and self correction to science

Who it is for

  • Researchers and students evaluating the credibility of published scientific findings
  • Science communicators and journalists reporting on empirical research breakthroughs
  • Curious readers wanting to understand how modern science actually works

What the summary covers

  1. Preface: An Internal Crisis of Trust2 min
  2. How Science Works: Social Ideals and the Norms of Science2 min
  3. The Replication Crisis: Fragile Priming and Preclinical Collapse3 min
  4. Fraud: Fabricated Data, Manipulated Images, and Institutional Complicity4 min
  5. Bias: Publication Filters, P Hacking, and Ideological Blind Spots4 min
  6. Negligence3 min
  7. Hype3 min
  8. Perverse Incentives3 min
  9. Fixing Science3 min
  10. Epilogue1 min

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