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# *Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy*

### (Cato Institute, 2019) 

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Date and Time 

December 17, 2019 3 - 4:30 PM EST 

Location 

Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring the editors **Patrick J. Michaels**, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Former Research Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; **Terence Kealey**, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Former Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge; with comments by **Holden Thorp**, Editor-in-chief, *Science*; moderated by **Jason Kuznicki**, Editor, Cato Books and *Cato Unbound*. 

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In 2005 John Ioannidis of Stanford University published a paper with the dramatic title of “Why Most Published Research Findings are False.” Dismayingly, we now know that he was right. In *Scientocracy* we explore how science has gone wrong and illustrate it with examples from nutrition, radiation, climate, and other branches of research.

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