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Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America /
"Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that 'tenured radicals' have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that sci...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Science as a cultural threat
- Mental modernization
- Resisting the modern
- Science and the state
- Social engineering
- Modernity and scientism
- The humanistic opposition
- A new right
- Cross-fertilization
- A new left
- Skepticism instantiated
- Science as culture
- Conclusion : Humanizing science.