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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.--

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceOpen Library: Science in popular culture -> ScienceOpen Library: Science news -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryMedicine, Health & the Body

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor2017FinalistSecondary source
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