Carl Sagan interviewed by Charlie Rose (1996):
“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy, if the people don’t know anything as about it?”
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« Publication bias is when studies with positive findings are more likely to be published — and they tend to be published faster — than studies with negative findings. This means that any meta analysis or literature reviews based only on published data will be biased, so researchers should make sure to include unpublished reports in their data as well.
Published vs. Unpublished Studies
David Marchese interviewed Vaclav Smil for the New York Times: This Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real.
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