
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
Cornelia Dean
Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9780674237803
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Science journalismScience literacyConflicts of interest in research
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2017)
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