{"id":1826,"date":"2014-04-15T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2014-05-06T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T23:29:11","slug":"spotting-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/spotting-bad-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting Bad Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across \u00a0this the other day \u00a0in a post \u00a0from a friend who works in the health sector \u00a0in Scotland and thought it might be useful in honing your analytical and critical thinking skills<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science-v2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1827\" title=\"Spotting-Bad-Science poster\" alt=\"List of 10 things to look out for when deciding  whether reported science in valid or not\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science-v2-212x300.png\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science-v2-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science-v2-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science-v2.png 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The vast majority of people will get their science news from online news site articles, and rarely delve into the research that the article is based on. It is \u00a0therefore important that people are capable of spotting bad scientific methods, or realising when articles are being economical with the conclusions drawn from research, and that\u2019s what this graphic aims to do. Note that this is not a comprehensive overview, nor is it implied that the presence of one of the points noted automatically means that the research should be disregarded. This is merely intended to provide a rough guide to things to be alert to when either reading science articles or evaluating research.<\/em><br \/>\nFrom<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2014\/04\/02\/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2014\/04\/02\/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2014\/04\/Spotting-Bad-Science.pdf\">Spotting-Bad-Science<\/a>\u00a0 Poster PDF<\/p>\n<p>PS Teachers: \u00a0Check out the their infographics page for some interesting and informative posters you can download:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/downloads\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across \u00a0this the other day \u00a0in a post \u00a0from a friend who works in the health sector \u00a0in Scotland and thought it might be useful in honing your analytical and critical thinking skills The vast majority of people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/spotting-bad-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,15,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-teachers","category-general","category-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}