Ep 7: Emily Kaplan - Science on Life Support
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This week on The Broken Science Podcast we look back at Emily’s introduction to the BSI’s event last February in Phoenix, Arizona. In post-modern science, the merits of a study are determined by consensus rather than the study’s predictive value. In her introduction to the event, Emily lays out how post-modern science came to be, and warns of it’s perils.
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