The book is really well written and explains a bunch of problems facing science, from fraud to publication bias. Part of the problem is bad statistics, which is well explained. Much of the problem is a system with incentives to do the wrong thing. It ends with a review of various suggestions that have been proposed or tried.
In addition to the big ideas, the book tells lots of stories that make it fun to read. The author is very thoughtful and never tries to overgeneralize.
All scientists should read this book to get an overview of what the reproducibility crisis is all about. Nonscientists will find it interesting too. The author is careful to write in clear language and define technical terms. Although the author is a psychologist, he includes plenty of examples from biology and physics. The book is general about science, not just about psychology.
I read it on a Kindle, which was fine. The tables and figures were all easy to read on a Kindle. One thing to know is that while most of the footnotes are simply citations, about a third of them are author notes, some quite lengthy. In fact, the notes fill close to a third of the pages.
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Brilliant title - excellent book
As if fake news would not cause enough trouble this book spells out how academia is sometimes making it worse.There is, of course, a beacon of hope as academia, in general, is still the gold standard for truth and knowledge.Let's hope they remember. This book will help them to remember.
