Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken

One of our ongoing themes when discussing scientific ethics is the central role of statistics in recognizing and communicating uncertainty. Unfortunately, statistics—and the scientific process more generally—often seems to be used more as a way of laundering uncertainty, processing data until researchers and consumers of research can feel safe acting as if various scientific hypotheses are unquestionably true.

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