Science Fiction

The online Cambridge Dictionary defines science as "the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, or knowledge obtained about the world by watching it carefully and experimenting." Most of us have come to equate science with impartial truth and fact, but that view is being questioned. More and more studies have not been able to be duplicated (one of the prerequisites for a study to be considered conclusive), many statistical errors are not caught, and as a psychologist interested in this problem explains, "There is no cost to getting things wrong": http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble