Big Picture Science – Are You Sure You’re Sure?: Brendan Nyhan / Uncertain Science

by Gary Niederhoff on November 10, 2014

Are You Sure You’re Sure? – Brendan Nyhan
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Part 3 of Skeptic Check: Are You Sure You’re Sure?, featuring Brendan Nyhan, political scientist at Dartmouth College, expressing concern over the flaws in how scientific research is published.
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Tagged as: Research, scientific method, skepticism

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