This article was originally posted on RealClearScience. One of the big problems in science journalism is the tendency to hype scientific research. You’re familiar with the routine: A new study comes out on, say, how coffee might lead to a slight increase in a particular disease. Then, plastered all over the front pages of websites…
Europe is a magical realm. The food is tastier, the people are sexier, and some parts of Poland don’t experience gravity. Wait, what?
The scientific community should replace its 0.05 significance level with 0.005.
This experiment wasted two perfectly good corpses.
Drain cleaners aren’t created equal.