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[–]chottohen 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What we need is a required course for non-science majors that helps them understand scientific papers and be able to separate the good and useful from nonsense. The problem is, as you pointed out, nowadays we can no longer trust the science since many published papers are just made up to produce a desired effect.