116. The War on Science

2017-04-20

The so-called “War on Science” isn’t about hostility, it’s a simple case of forgetting how science is different.

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The March for Science Website - https://www.marchforscience.com/

The War on Science, by Shawn Otto, a very thorough analysis of the history & causes of the political & social efforts to deliberately undermine scientific authority - https://www.amazon.com/War-Science-Waging-Matters-About/dp/1571313532

Scientific American: Is There Really a War on Science? - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-really-a-war-on-science/

Slate: The war on science is a trap. The science march should step carefully. - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/02/the_war_on_science_is_a_trap.html

  1. Spanking & Anecdotal Evidence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlGKudCCnc

  2. Hume’s Guillotine & Rational Morality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwkSA8nqmdI

  3. Science vs. Philosophy, an Ancient (Non-)Debate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CGQrt_5n60

  4. Science, Pseudoscience, & the Demarcation Problem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dmOmprI0v4

Some great examples of how bias can cause us to wander away from the scientific method (thanks Your2ndPlanB!):

Gender bias in research: how does it affect evidence based medicine? by Anita Holdcroft - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014107680710000102

A framework to analyse gender bias in epidemiological research - http://jech.bmj.com/content/61/Suppl_2/ii46.short

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