How to quickly spot dodgy science
- Written by Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor, Monash University
Is that a black hole, or a hole in their data?NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CC BYI haven’t got time for science, or at least not all of it. I cannot read 19,000 astrophysics papers every year. No way.
And I have little patience for bad science, which gets more media attention than it deserves. Even the bad science is overwhelming. 700...







