Science and Technology Policy
ENVS 5100

Week 5

September 21 –Science and the Media

Research

Rekdal, O. B., 2014. Academic urban legends. Social studies of science, 44(4), 638-654.

Ioannidis, J. P., 2005. Why most published research findings are false. Chance, 18(4), 40-47.

Freedman, D.H., 2010. Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science, The Atlantic, November.

Cases

Bohannon, J., 2015. I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

Singal, J., 2015. The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud.

Guest

Kloor, K., 2014. The GMO-Suicide Myth.

Kloor, K., 2015. The Battle for the Soul of Conservation Science.