Reality Check How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future

Name: Reality Check How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
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ISBN: 9780253010292

ISBN-10: 0253010292

ISBN-13: 9780253010292

Edition: 2017

Authors: Donald R. Prothero, Michael Shermer, Pat Linse

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The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country 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 reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.430

Michael Shermer is the director of the Skeptics Society and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches science, technology, and evolutionary thought in the Cultural Studies Program at Occidental College.



Foreword



Preface and Acknowledgments



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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