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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life

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Detecting Bad Science with Data

20/05/2023 GMT

Detecting bad science with data

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Uncovering fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science

Uncovering fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science.

For more than a decade there’ve been longstanding concerns about the credibility and reliability of science research. This “bad science” has often stemmed from poor data practice or worse. But statistics can also help us identify and understand some of what’s going wrong, whether that’s selective data-slicing or outright fabrication.

Tim Harford talks to writer and broadcaster Michael Blastland about his new BBC radio documentary ‘The Truth Police’, which hears from the outsiders who are calling out fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Nathan Gower
Editor: Richard Vadon
Programme co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound engineer: James Beard

(Photo: Compound Microscope examination of a slide. Credit: Anchalee Phanmaha/Getty Images)

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