{"id":4603,"date":"2014-04-26T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2014-04-26T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:42:04","slug":"rough-guide-spotting-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"A rough guide to spotting bad science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANDY PDF GIVES TWELVE TIPS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sp_s.png\" alt=\"Sp_s\" width=\"485\" height=\"685\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Click above to embiggen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We learned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/\">Compound Interest<\/a> blog, a self-described &#8220;everyday exploration of chemical compounds&#8221; from this post entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2014\/04\/02\/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science\/\">A rough guide to spotting bad science<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s great and speaks for itself. Visit the link to dowload it in PDF form or to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/people\/compoundchem\/works\/11773448-a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science\">order a poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As our longtime readers know, bad science journalism is a pet peeve of ours. See our related post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2011\/01\/21\/what-can-we-do-to-defang-bad-science-journalism\/\">what can we do to defang bad science journalism?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* REMDINDER: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2014\/04\/14\/second-annual-workshop-crowdsourcing-online-behavioral-experiments-cobe-2014\/\">Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments<\/a> submission deadline is Wednesday, April 30!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rough guide to spotting bad science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[827,161,721,829,52,602,828,60,831,36,93,832,59,830],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-research-news","tag-bad","tag-causation","tag-control","tag-corrleation","tag-decision","tag-dsn","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-pdf","tag-psychology","tag-research","tag-rough","tag-science","tag-spurious"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}