“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and
possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews Editors' …

Much of contemporary knowledge is generated by groups not single individuals. A natural
question to ask is, what features make groups better or worse at generating knowledge …

Social scientists use many different methods, and there are often substantial disagreements
about which method is appropriate for a given research question. In response to this …

Contemporary societies are often “polarized”, in the sense that sub-groups within these
societies hold stably opposing beliefs, even when there is a fact of the matter. Extant models …

The reward structure of science has been of increasing interest to philosophers. The
literature on this subject has focused on the good news: ways in which rewards can …

I use network models to simulate social learning situations in which the dominant group
ignores or devalues testimony from the marginalized group. I find that the marginalized …

We argue that the main results of scientific papers may appropriately be published even if
they are false, unjustified, and not believed to be true or justified by their author. To defend …

Science is often perceived to be a self-correcting enterprise. In principle, the assessment of
scientific claims is supposed to proceed in a cumulative fashion, with the reigning theories of …

The Hong and Page 'diversity trumps ability'result has been used to argue for the more
general claim that a diverse set of agents is epistemically superior to a comparable group of …

Those who comment on modern scientific institutions are often quick to praise institutional
structures that leave scientists to their own devices. These comments reveal an underlying …