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.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Wootery on Thursday May 12 2016, @11:18AM
I enjoyed this episode. Very much in line with the writings of Ben Goldacre.
John Oliver's show certainly does a better job than Trevor Noah's, which is at times just flagrantly biased garbage. [youtube.com]