The matter of facts : skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science /
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The norms of science, and its structure
- Popper and Kuhn, and their conceptions of what science is
- Laboratory life : Bruno Latour and rhetoric in science
- Is the scientific paper a fraud? The place of hypotheses and their falsification
- The birth of neuroendocrinology and the "stuff of legend" : a case study of paradigm change
- The language of crisis and controversy, and the levers of paradigm change
- Logical positivism : the flawed belief that the truth of scientific statements can be established by verification
- Ambiguity of scientific terms and the construction of meaning
- The totality of evidence : weighing different types of evidence
- Exaggerated claims, semantic flexibility, and nonsense
- Complexity and its problems for causal narratives
- Publication and citation : a complex system
- A case study of a field in evolution : oxytocin, from birth to behavior
- Where are the facts?
- Organized skepticism in science
- Webs of belief : citation networks
- Unintended consequences : publication and citation bias
- High-impact papers : citation rates, citation distortions, and mis-citation
- Are most research published research findings false? Weaknesses in the design of experiments and the analysis of their outcomes
- Societal and economic impact of basic research
- Lost in citation
- Conviction, expectations, and uncertainty in science
- Journals, impact factors, and their corrupting influence on science
- The narrative fallacy : how a good story beats rigor and balance
- Scholarship.