The Doomsday Lobby Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors /

From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Benn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, James T. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Temas:
Astronomy.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Science.
Mathematics.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Physical Sciences.
Mathematics and Computing.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • and Overview
  • American Science before the Bomb
  • Dr. Bush Fathers a Foundation
  • Oh Sputnik! How the Educationists Prospered from a Russian Satellite
  • To Mars! (But Why?)
  • The Chicken Littles of Big Science; or, Here Come the Killer Asteroids!
  • Conclusion: The Only Way to Keep the Sky from Falling Is....

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