Stuart Ritchie

Thrilling ... Ritchie reminds us that another world is possible

The most important science story of our times ... evocative and engaging ... sometimes funny, sometimes shocking

Excellent ... we need better science. That's why books like this are so important

Entertaining ... revelatory ... brilliantly highlights the problems in current practices and sets out a path towards new ones

A desperately important book, Science Fictions brilliantly exposes the fragility of the science on which lives, livelihoods and our whole society depend ... Required reading for everyone

ADAM RUTHERFORD, author of How to Argue With a Racist

Ritchie's engaging tour of the dark side of research [...] has rumbled science's guilty secret ... the tragedy is that the current system does not just overlook our foibles, it amplifies them ... he's entertaining company ... an illuminating and thoughtful guide. Ultimately, he comes to praise science, not to bury it

An engagingly accessible set of cautionary tales to show how science and scientists can be led astray, in some instances with fatal consequences ... clear-eyed and chillingly accurate ... should be compulsory reading for anyone involved in the communication of science to policy makers and to the public

GINA RIPPON, author of The Gendered Brain

Gripping tales of increasing recent villainy and bias in the laboratory, which should worry those of us who love science

MATT RIDLEY, author of How Innovation Works

All the replication-failure and scientific-misconduct stories you've ever heard are here - along with more that you haven't ... This comprehensive collection of mishaps, misdeeds and tales of caution is the great strength of Ritchie's offering ... Ritchie's four themes carve complex, interconnected issues at natural joints, and allow his case studies to shine

He has come to praise science, not to bury it; nevertheless, his analyses of science's current ethical ills - fraud, hype, negligence and so on - are devastating

Science Fictions... is a useful account of ten years or more of debate, mostly in specialist circles, about reproducibility

Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science

'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford 
 
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 
 
Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't always be relied on? 
 
In this vital investigation, Stuart Ritchie reveals the disturbing flaws in today's science that undermine our understanding of the world and threaten human lives. With bias, careless mistakes and even outright forgery influencing everything from austerity economics to the anti-vaccination movement, he proposes vital remedies to save and protect science - this most valuable of human endeavours - from itself. 
 
* With a new afterword by the author * 
 
'Thrilling... Reminds us that another world is possible' The Times, Books of the Year 
 
'Excellent... We need better science. That's why books like this are so important' Evening Standard

Stuart Ritchie

Praise for Science Fictions

Thrilling ... Ritchie reminds us that another world is possible

Fascinating and often shocking

The most important science story of our times ... evocative and engaging ... sometimes funny, sometimes shocking

Thrilling ... Ritchie reminds us that another world is possible

Fascinating and often shocking

The most important science story of our times ... evocative and engaging ... sometimes funny, sometimes shocking

Thrilling ... Ritchie reminds us that another world is possible

Fascinating and often shocking

The most important science story of our times ... evocative and engaging ... sometimes funny, sometimes shocking

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