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Reality Check How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future

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"Prothero is a skeptic. So am I. When we call ourselves skeptics we mean simply that we take a scientific approach to the evaluation of claims. Science is skepticism and scientists are naturally skeptical because most claims turn out to be false. Weeding out the few kernels of wheat from the substantial pile of chaff requires extensive observation, careful experimentation, and cautious inference to the best conclusion. Donald Prothero is a scientist's scientist in this regard... In this volume you will indeed get a reality check on some of the most important issues of our time." - Michael Shermer, author of The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.08.2013

Verlag

Indiana University Press

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

23.6/15.9/4 cm

Gewicht

655 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-253-01029-2

Zitat

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.08.2013

Verlag

Indiana University Press

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

23.6/15.9/4 cm

Gewicht

655 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-253-01029-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Reality Check
  • 1. Reality Check
    Introduction
    Belief vs. Reality
    2. Science, our Candle in the Darkness
    A World Transformed
    What Is Science?
    Baloney Detection
    Whom Can We Trust?
    3. Selling Out Science
    "Cancer by the Carton"
    The Truth Will Set You Free-If You Can Find It
    Secondhand Smoke Kills, Too
    Star Wars vs. Nuclear Winter-How To Crucify Carl Sagan
    4. Making the Environment the Enemy: Acid Rain, the Ozone Hole, and the Demonization of Rachel Carson
    The Tragedy of the Commons
    Acid Rain: Death from the Skies
    The Ozone Hole: Another Environmental Crisis Resolved
    Rachel Carson and DDT: How Far Will the Anti-Environmentalists Go?
    5. Warm Enough for You?
    Political Hot Air
    Global Climate Change: the Scientific Evidence
    The Global Climate Denialist Conspiracy
    It's all Politics-and Our Planet Is the Hostage
    6. Gimme that Old Time Religion: Creationism and the Denial of Humanity's Place in Nature
    The Battle that Never Ends
    Why Do We Say Evolution Is Real?
    What Is Creationism?
    What Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
    The Creationists' Standard (Discredited) Arguments
    Why Should We Care?
    7. Jenny's Body Count: Playing Russian Roulette with Our Children
    The "Good Old Days"
    The Anti-Vaxxers
    Vaccines and Autism: Is There a Link?
    Playing Russian Roulette-With Other People's Children
    8. Victims of Modern Witch Doctors: AIDS Denialism
    The Strangest Denialism of All
    The Scourge of Africa
    Ignorance that Kills: AIDS Denialism
    Denying Death
    9. If it Quacks like a Quack: Snake-Oil Con Artists in an Era of Medical Science
    Modern Snake-Oil Salesmen
    Homeopathy: The "Water Cure" Revisited
    Back-Cracking: The Chiropractic Con Game
    Where is the Evidence?
    10. Down the Slope of Hubbert's Curve: The End of Cheap Oil and Natural Resources
    The Never-Ending Oil Crisis
    The Wealth of Nations
    The End of Cheap Oil
    What Do We Do?
    11. Crowded Enough for You? Human Overpopulation and its Consequences
    The Ticking Time Bomb
    Once Upon a Time . . .
    Do the Math!
    In Growth We Trust
    The Limits of Human Population
    Our Fellow Planetary Passengers: Do They Count?
    12. Rejection of Reality: How Denial of Science Threatens Us All
    Unscientific America
    Is our Children Learning Science?
    Why Do They Do It?
    Idiocracy
    Consequences
    Index