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“Science, the discipline in which we should find the harshest scepticism, the most pin-sharp rationality and the hardest-headed empiricism, has become home to a dizzying array of incompetence, delusion, lies and self-deception.”
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
“To give Kahneman his due, he later admitted that he’d made a mistake in overemphasising the scientific certainty of priming effects. ‘The experimental evidence for the ideas I presented in that chapter was significantly weaker than I believed when I wrote it,’ he commented six years after the publication of Thinking, Fast and Slow. ‘This was simply an error: I knew all I needed to know to moderate my enthusiasm … but I did not think it through.’14 But the damage had already been done: millions of people had been informed by a Nobel Laureate that they had ‘no choice’ but to believe in those studies.”
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
― Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
“The fact that, for example, the link between smoking and lung cancer was first discovered by Nazi doctors (Proctor, 2000) doesn’t mean we should tell people that smoking is healthy after all.”
― Intelligence: All That Matters
― Intelligence: All That Matters
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