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Comprehensive, readable, and replete with current, useful examples, this book provides a much-needed explanation of how to be a critical consumer of the scientific claims we encounter in our everyday lives.

April Cordero Maskiewicz, Department of Biology, Point Loma Nazarene University

Seethalers book helps the reader look inside the workings of science and gain a deeper understanding of the pathway that is followed by a scientific findingfrom its beginnings in a research lab to its appearance on the nightly news.

Jim Slotta, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

How I wish science was taught this way! Seethaler builds skills for critical thinking and evaluation. The book is rich with examples that not only illustrate her points beautifully, they also make it very interesting and fun to read.

Julia R. Brown, Director, Targacept, Inc.

Dont Get Hoodwinked! Make Sense of Health and Science News...and Make Smarter Decisions!

Every day, theres a new scientific or health controversy. And every day, it seems as if theres a new study that contradicts what you heard yesterday. Whats really going on? Whos telling the truth? Whos faking it? What do scientists actually knowand what dont they know? This book will help you cut through the confusion and make sense of it alleven if youve never taken a science class! Leading science educator and journalist Dr. Sherry Seethaler reveals how science and health research really work...how to put scientific claims in context and understand the real tradeoffs involved...tell quality research from junk science...discover when someones deliberately trying to fool you...and find more information you can trust! Nobody knows what new controversy will erupt tomorrow. But one things for certain: With this book, youll know how to figure out the real dealand make smarter decisions for yourself and your family!

Watch the news, and youll be overwhelmed by snippets of badly presented science: information thats incomplete, confusing, contradictory, out-of-context, wrong, or flat-out dishonest. Defend yourself! Dr. Sherry Seethaler gives you a powerful arsenal of tools for making sense of science. Youll learn how to think more sensibly about everything from mad cow disease to global warmingand how to make better science-related decisions in both your personal life and as a citizen.

Youll begin by understanding how science really works and progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree. Seethaler helps you assess the possible biases of those who make scientific claims in the media, and place scientific issues in appropriate context, so you can intelligently assess tradeoffs. Youll learn how to determine whether a new study is really meaningful; uncover the difference between cause and coincidence; figure out which statistics mean something, and which dont.

Seethaler reveals the tricks self-interested players use to mislead and confuse you, and points you to sources of information you can actually rely upon. Her many examples range from genetic engineering of crops to drug treatments for depression...but the techniques she teaches you will be invaluable in understanding any scientific controversy, in any area of science or health.

^ Potions, plots, and personalities: How science progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree

^ Is it cause or merely coincidence? How to tell compelling evidence from a good story

^ There are always tradeoffs: How to put science and health claims in context, and understand their real implications

^ All the tricks experts use to fool you, exposed! How to recognize lies, truthiness, or pseudo-expertise

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Science

How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies

Sherry Seethaler

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ISBN-10: 0-13-715522-0

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seethaler, Sherry, 1970
Lies, damned lies, and science : how to sort through the noise around global warming, the
latest health claims, and other scientific controversies / Sherry Seethaler. 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-13-715522-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Communication in science. 2. Information
resourcesReviews. 3. Global warming. I. Title.
Q223.S33 2008
500dc22
2008032002

Dedication

For Barbara, who is amazing and wise

Index
A

About Urban Legends,

advertising buzzwords and slogans,

age differences,

allocation of health funding

power of patient advocacy groups,

relationship between death rates and health care funding,

alternatives, comparing choices to,

Alzheimers, nutritional supplements and,

American Association of Petroleum Geologists,

American Chemical Society,

amphibian declines,

analysis, costs benefits analysis,

anchoring effect,

ancient wisdom unknown to science, claims of,

anecdotal evidence,

anthropogenic greenhouse gases,

antidepressants,

Archimedes,

ASDs (autism spectrum disorders),

Asilomar Conference,

aspirin and reduction of risk for heart disease,

assessing risks and benefits,

economics,

environment,

ethics,

human health,

long-term versus short-term,

Atkins diet,

attacks by one stakeholder on another,

attrition,

autism spectrum disorders (ASDs),

average,

B

balanced decisions,

Barnett, Arnold,

benefits, assessing,

economics,

environment,

ethics,

human health,

long-term versus short-term,

BGH (bovine growth hormone),

bias

confirmation bias,

recall bias,

selection bias,

of stakeholders,

bisphenol A (BPA),

blood donation bans and BSE,

bovine growth hormone (BGH),

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak, stakeholder reactions to,

BPA (bisphenol A),

brainstorming,

Break the Chain,

breakdowns in logic. See

breast cancer, alleged link with underarm shaving and deodorant,

Brescoll, Victoria,

Broken Telephone game analogy,

BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) outbreak, stakeholder reactions to,

Bt crops,

Bush, George W., policy on stem cell research funding,

buzzwords,

C

cancer

alleged link with EMF (electric and magnetic fields),

breast cancer, alleged link with underarm shaving and deodorant,

carcinogen categories,

health care funding,

non-Hodgkins lymphoma, glyphosate and,

sun exposure and,

carcinogen categories,

categories of stakeholders,

cause and effect

anecdotal evidence,

blind studies,

case studies

EMF (electric and magnetic fields) and cancer,

genetics and obesity,

global warming and hurricane frequency,

glyphosate and non-Hodgkins lymphoma,

low-fat diets and health,

Nature paper on genetically engineered plants,

underarm shaving, deodorant, and breast cancer,

combining multiple forms of data,

correlation versus causation,

dangers of applying study results to other groups

condition differences,

individual differences,

locale differences,

overview,

time differences,

determining relationship between alleged cause and outcome,

epidemiological observations,

interplay of possible causal relationships,

links and complications,

nonexperimental findings,

overview,

predisposition to link cause and effect,

prospective studies,

relative risk,

retrospective studies,

celebrity endorsements,

checklist to determine relationship between alleged cause and outcome,

chemical fertilizer,

chemical-free claims,

climate change

alleged link with hurricane frequency,

climate models,

diversity of data on,

greenhouse effect,

climate models,

coercion in scientific studies,

cold fusion,

combining multiple forms of data,

compliance,

computational models,

computer simulations,

condition differences,

confirmation bias,

confounding factors,

consulting original sources,

context

of averages,

basis for comparison,

checklist to evaluate options,

comparing numbers to what is considered normal,

considering different themes of tradeoffs,

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