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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Vaccine Rejection: Truth and Consequences
On the Origin of Darwin
Warming Arctic on Thin Ice
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The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
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Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology
Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics
Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise
More People, but Less Hardship?
Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
Out with the Bad Science
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