The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It - Softcover

Otto, Shawn Lawrence

 
9781571313539: The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1571313532 ISBN 13: 9781571313539
Verlag: MILKWEED ED, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society—from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense—we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress and a simultaneous expansion of danger.

At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science: the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science. The result is an unprecedented erosion of thought in Western democracies as voters, policymakers, and justices actively ignore the evidence from science, leaving major policy decisions to be based more on the demands of the most strident voices.

Shawn Otto’s compelling new book investigates the historical, social, philosophical, political, and emotional reasons why evidence-based politics are in decline and authoritarian politics are once again on the rise on both left and right, and provides some compelling solutions to bring us to our collective senses, before it's too late.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Shawn Lawrence Otto was the co-founder and CEO of Science Debate 2008, the largest political initiative in the history of science. He is also an award-winning screenwriter best known for writing and co-producing the Academy Award-nominated House of Sand and Fog. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Science, Salon, and Scientific American. He lives in Minnesota.

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Verlag
MILKWEED ED
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1571313532
ISBN 13 
9781571313539
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
514
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