• FidoGazette Vol 11 no 26 Page: 4

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Thu Jun 28 15:11:32 2018
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    How to read and understand a scientific paper:
    a guide for non-scientists
    By Jennifer Raff

    From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has
    very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way
    science is communicated in academia, are a different format to
    newspaper articles or blogs and require a level of skill and
    undoubtedly a greater amount of patience. Here Jennifer Raff
    has prepared a helpful guide for non-scientists on how to read a
    scientific paper. These steps and tips will be useful to anyone
    interested in the presentation of scientific findings and raise
    important points for scientists to consider with their own
    writing practice.

    My post, The truth about vaccinations: Your physician knows more
    than the University of Google sparked a very lively discussion,
    with comments from several people trying to persuade me (and the
    other readers) that their paper disproved everything that ICÇÖd
    been saying. While I encourage you to go read the comments and
    contribute your own, here I want to focus on the much larger
    issue that this debate raised: what constitutes scientific
    authority?

    ItCÇÖs not just a fun academic problem. Getting the science wrong
    has very real consequences. For example, when a community
    doesnCÇÖt vaccinate children because theyCÇÖre afraid of CÇ£toxinsCÇØ
    and think that prayer (or diet, exercise, and CÇ£clean livingCÇØ) is
    enough to prevent infection, outbreaks happen.
    [...]

    Read the rest of the article:
    TinyUrl:
    http://tinyurl.com/h4rjfxb



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