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You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends!

“Science is probably the best thing humans ever invented. Academia, on the other hand...”

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, explains the ideas in this comic, by Zach Weinersmith, in more detail, telling shocking stories of scientific error and misconduct. It also proposes an abundance of ideas for how to rescue science from its current malaise.

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Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. He is the author of the new book Science Fictions, which documents how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype are rife in science. Science Fictions proposes an abundance of ideas for how to rescue science from its current malaise.

Zach Weinersmith is an illustrator, writer, producer, and creator of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He is co-creator of books that include Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration.

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