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Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Donald R. Prothero
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Description for Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Linse, Pat. Num Pages: 392 pages, 39 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFM; KJG; MBN; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He ... Read more
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 reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253024541
SKU
V9780253024541
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99-50
About Donald R. Prothero
Recipient of the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences. Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has published 32 books, including Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres (IUP, ... Read more
Reviews for Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Prothero's treatise will give the science-minded something to cheer about, a brief summary of the real data that supports so many critical aspects of modern life.
Publishers Weekly
Strongly recommended for popular-science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others.
Library Journal
The shabby tactics of science ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
Strongly recommended for popular-science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others.
Library Journal
The shabby tactics of science ... Read more