Science and sensibility: on the untrustworthy nature of truth - podcast
by Tracey Brown from on (#P7EK)
Tracey Brown delivers the 2015 Sense About Science lecture: The Ugly Truth - on the need to encourage accountability and support scrutiny over research
This year's Sense About Science lecture focuses on the need to encourage accountability and the deployment of evidence in public life.
Tracey Brown looks at how the truth can be an amorphous concept in science, with scientists more likely to hedge claims with caveats, whilst more bombastic statements are made in other disciplines.
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