A Rought Guide to Spotting Bad Science

07 December 2014

From the website, CompoundChem.com, 12 pointers to spotting abuse of science to make claims:

1. Sensationalised headlines
2. Misinterpreted results
3. Conflict of interests
4. Correlation & causation
5. Speculative language
6. Sample size too small
7. Unrepresentative samples
8. No control group used
9. No blind testing used
10. ‘Cherry-picked’ results
11. Unreplicable results
12. Journals & citations

Read the original pdf for elaboration!