Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science

Chapter 1: Speaking Truth to Power: Uncovering Flawed Methods, Protecting Lives and Welfare Section 1: Conceptual and Logical Analysis Chapter 2: Discovering Dump Dangers: Unearthing Hazards in Hydrogeology Chapter 3: Hormesis Harms: The Emperor Has No Biochemistry Clothes Chapter 4: Trading Lives for Money: Compensating Wage Differentials in Economics Section 2: Heuristic Analysis and Developing Hypotheses Chapter 5: Learning from Analogy: Extrapolating from Animal Data in Toxicology Chapter 6: Conjectures and Conflict: A Thought Experiment in Physics Chapter 7: Being a Disease Detective: Discovering Causes in Epidemiology Chapter 8: Why Statistics Is Slippery: Easy Algorithms Fail in Biology Section 3: Methodological Analysis and Justifying Hypotheses Chapter 9: Releasing Radioactivity: Hypothesis-Prediction in Hydrogeology Chapter 10: Protecting Florida Panthers: Historical-Comparativist Methods in Zoology Chapter 11: Cracking Case Studies: Why They Work in Sciences Such As Ecology Chapter 12: Uncovering Cover-up: Inference to the Best Explanation in Medicine Section 4: Values Analysis and Scientific Uncertainty Chapter 13: Value Judgments Can Kill: Expected-Utility Rules in Decision Theory Chapter 14: Understanding Uncertainty: False Negatives in Quantitative Risk Analysis Chapter 15: Where We Go from Here: Making Philosophy of Science Practical