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The Washington Post reports on a video from the television series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver regarding flaws in science and in reporting about science.
Topics touched upon by Mr. Oliver include p-hacking, exploratory studies vs. confirmational studies, press releases, the "telephone" effect, animal testing, oversimplification, industry funding, sample sizes, and TED talks.
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John Oliver on "Bullshit Masquerading as Science"
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(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Wednesday May 11 2016, @05:43PM
His stance is that lots of ted talks are great, but there is a significant amount of garbage / advertising science that gets air time. Personally I've stopped checking out ted talks, then later read some articles which nicely outlined the reasons. Wish I had those links handy...
~Tilting at windmills~