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

Stuart Ritchie. Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth / Translated from English by Alena Yakimenko; Editor Ekaterina Vladimirskaya. - M.: CORPUS, 2024.

Do scientists lie and cover things up or scientists have proven it, so it must be true? Between these two extremes lies a vast field of ambiguity, and Stuart Ritchie’s book helps us navigate through it and find our position. Using stunning examples, Ritchie describes systemic problems in the public reporting of science and the construction of science itself, allowing us to critically rethink everything we have read, watched and listened to about science so far.