Only a tiny fraction of all scientific research is ever covered by the popular media, however, and most scientists go through their entire career without once encountering a reporter. New results and ideas are argued in the halls of research institutions, presented at scientific meeting, published in scholarly journals, all out of the public view. Voodoo science, by contrast, is usually pitched directly to the media, circumventing the normal process of scientific review and debate…The result is that a disproportionate share of the science seen by the public is flawed.

- Bob Park, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, p. 26-27






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