Pseudoscientific Nonsense

To determine our worldview and make reasoned decisions that affect our lives, we need, among other things, to form our attitude towards the statements of experts and the results of scientific research. "Scientists lie and hide everything" or "scientists have... proven it, so it must be true"? Between these two extremes lies a vast field of ambiguity, and Stuart Ritchie’s book helps us navigate it and find our position. By providing astonishing examples, Ritchie describes systemic problems in the public presentation of scientific work and the structure of scientific activity itself, allowing us to critically rethink everything we have read, watched, and listened to about science until now. However, he does not take away our hopes for progress—instead, we learn a lot about what is being done and what else can be done to ensure that trust in scientists’ work is built on more reliable and sustainable foundations.