Reality Check
How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
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 de…
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Weitere Autoren: Shermer, Michael (Vorb.) / Linse, Pat (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-01036-0
- EAN: 9780253010360
- Produktnummer: 31915766
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
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, 2013); Earth: Portrait of a Planet; The Evolution of Earth; Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters; Catastrophes!; and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (IUP, 2006).
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