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"Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as cancer biology, nutrition, genetics, immigration, education,...
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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved...
4) Dark places
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Years after several of her family members were killed, a woman is invited to a meeting of a group interested in re-enacting the crime and sets off her own investigation into her brother's guilt or innocence.
6) Brian Banks
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The story of Brian Banks, an American football player, who was falsely accused of rape and spent almost six years in prison.
7) Stillwater
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A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
8) Papillon
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After being framed for murder and sentenced to life in a French prison, a safecracker forms a friendship with a counterfeiter who agrees to help him escape in return for protection.
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"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior--and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges of a heinous sexual assault he did not commit. As a young black man accused of rape, he faced almost certain conviction. Despite being innocent, Brian took a plea and was sentenced as an adult to six...
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From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
11) The innocent
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Matt Hunter, released from prison for accidentally killing someone when breaking up a fight, has his life back on track--a beautiful, pregnant wife, and a pending deal on the house of his dreams--until he receives bizarre photographs that send him running from the law.
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