Reality check : how science deniers threaten our future / / Donald R. Prothero ; foreword by Michael Shermer ; Illustrations by Pat Linse
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Prothero Donald R
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Reality check : how science deniers threaten our future / / Donald R. Prothero ; foreword by Michael Shermer ; Illustrations by Pat Linse
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 001.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pseudoscience |
| Science - Social aspects | |
| Science - Political aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 or flatly deny demonstrable scientific reality to protect their nonscientific ideology, their power, or their bottom line. To shed light on this darkness, Donald R. Prothero explains the scientific process and why society has come to rely on science not only to provide a better life but also to reac |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reality check |
| ISBN: | 0-253-02454-4 |
| 0-253-01036-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809933603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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