Today’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results because of random error or weird samples or study design. But sometimes science gets things wrong because it’s done by humans, and humans are fallible and imperfect.
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The Poisoner's Handbook: The Sinister Side of Chemistry
Ice, Ice, Baby: The Physics of Curling
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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics
The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
Mining for Online Game Gold and Other Amazing Stories
Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2
Alan Alda's Human Spark
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Christmas Season Science
Bonus Bogus Brainteaser
Copenhagen and Everywhere Else
World Changing Ideas: December's Scientific American
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Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water
Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and "Becoming Human" NOVA Preview
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