The nature and use of ecotoxicological evidence: natural science, statistics, psychology, and sociology

Abstract

Section 1. Introduction -- The emerging importance of pollution -- Section 2: How individuals gather and judge evidence -- Human reasoning: everyday heuristics and foibles -- Human reasoning: within scientific traditions and rules -- Pathological reasoning within sciences -- Individual scientist: reasoning by the numbers -- Section 3: How groups weigh and apply evidence -- Social processing of evidence: commonplace dynamics and foibles -- How innovations enter and move within groups -- Evidence in social networks -- Section 4: Conclusion -- Conclusion.