Reality check : how science deniers threaten our future /

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The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country - all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prothero, Donald R.
Otros Autores: Linse, Pat
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Pseudoscience.
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Political aspects.
Parasciences.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Sciences > Aspect politique.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Pseudoscience
Science > Political aspects
Science > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reality Check
  • Science, Our Candle in the Darkness
  • Betrayers of the Truth : Selling Out Science
  • Making the Environment the Enemy : Acid Rain, the Ozone Hole, and the Demonization of Rachel Carson
  • Hot Enough for You? : The Heated Debate over a Warming Planet
  • Gimme That Old Time Religion : Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Denial of Humanity's Place in Nature
  • Jenny's Body Count : Playing Russian Roulette with Our Children
  • Victims of Modern Witch Doctors : AIDS Denialism
  • If It Quacks like a Quack : Snake-Oil Con Artists in an Era of Medical Science
  • What's Your Sign? : The Ancient Pseudoscience of Astrology
  • Down the Slope of Hubbert's Curve : The End of Cheap Oil and Natural Resources
  • Far from the Madding Crowd : Human Overpopulation and Its Consequences
  • The Rejection of Reality : How the Denial of Science Threatens Us All.

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