Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science /
Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their scientifi...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Environmental ethics and science policy
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Table of Contents:
- Speaking truth to power: uncovering flawed methods, protecting lives and welfare. Part I. Conceptual and logical analysis. Discovering dump dangers: unearthing hazards in hydrogeology
- Hormesis harms: the emperor has no biochemistry clothes
- Trading lives for money: compensating wage differentials in economics. Part II. Heuristic analysis and developing hypotheses. Learning from analogy: extrapolating from animal data in toxicology
- Conjectures and conflict: a thought experiment in physics
- Being a disease detective: discovering causes in epidemiology
- Why statistics is slippery: easy algorithms fail in biology. Part III. Methodological analysis and justifying hypotheses. Releasing radioactivity: hypothesis-prediction in hydrology
- Protecting Florida panthers: historical-comparativist methods in zoology
- Cracking case studies: why they work in sciences such as ecology
- Uncovering cover-up: inference to the best explanation in medicine. Part IV. Values analysis and scientific uncertainty. Value judgements can kill: expected-utility rules in decision theory
- Understanding uncertainty: false negatives in quantitative risk analysis
- Where we go from here: making philosophy of science practical.