Review of Uncertainty: How it Makes Science Advance

A nice review of Uncertainty: How it Makes Science Advance, by Sharon Dunwoody, Evjue-Bascom professor emerita of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:

“The careful explication offered in this modest text will be of service to our scholarly community, as will the authors’ effort, in the last third of the book, to make the case that the presence of uncertainty in science should lead us to accommodate it in such a way that we can still believe what science knows and not label it inferior to other ways of knowing. … All told, though, I found this to be an excellent and readable treatment of uncertainty. It offers a good starting point for scholars who seek an introduction to the concept, and it should find its way onto reading lists in courses from communication to the sciences.”