How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Anti-Science inthe Age of Disinformation
In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science).
Scientists are supposed to have freedom to choose and conduct their experiments and exchange their ideas. Known as scientific freedom, this idea has been implicated in both wonderful and terrible scientific discoveries. Although it is not new, it has great relevance to contemporary society. In a time of genetic editing, global warming, and a ......
Next Generation Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem.
Build Me the Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem.
UNREASON: Exploring Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Extraordinary Claims is a collection of forty-five of the best articles the legendary Skeptical Inquirer magazine has published in the past decade. Featuring articles from writers including Neil deGrasse Tyson on the process of science, Richard Dawkins on the standards of truth, Elizabeth Loftus ......
Volume 1: Foundations, Planning, Measures, and PsychometricsVolume 2: Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative,
With significant new and updated content, the second edition of the indispensable APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology features descriptions of techniques that psychologists and others have developed to pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do.
This book explores how to develop engaging science communication initiatives that motivate audiences and researchers into collaboration. Contributors present scientific evidence and case studies to illustrate how to carry out engaging initiatives that unite researchers, and people around collaboration and interest in scientific research.
The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the spectrum of women's studies in ......
This book is a step-by-step guide to conducting qualitative meta-analysis (QMA), a flexible and generic method that synthesizes the findings of several research studies investigating similar phenomena.
