Reality Check [electronic resource] : How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future

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서명/저자사항	Reality Check [electronic resource]: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future.
개인저자	Prothero, Donald R.  Linse, Pat.
발행사항	Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
형태사항	1 online resource (390 p.).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Prothero, Donald R. Reality Check : How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future Bloomington : Indiana University Press,c2013 9780253010292
ISBN	9780253010360 (electronic bk.) 0253010365 (electronic bk.)
일반주기	Description based upon print version of record.
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Reality Check; 2 Science, Our Candle in the Darkness; 3 Betrayers of the Truth: Selling Out Science; 4 Making the Environment the Enemy: Acid Rain, the Ozone Hole, and the Demonization of Rachel Carson; 5 Hot Enough for You? The Heated Debate over a Warming Planet; 6 Gimme That Old Time Religion: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Denial of Humanity's Place in Nature; 7 Jenny's Body Count: Playing Russian Roulette with Our Children; 8 Victims of Modern Witch Doctors: AIDS Denialism 9 If It Quacks like a Quack: Snake-Oil Con Artists in an Era of Medical Science10 What's Your Sign? The Ancient Pseudoscience of Astrology; 11 Down the Slope of Hubbert's Curve: The End of Cheap Oil and Natural Resources; 12 Far from the Madding Crowd: Human Overpopulation and Its Consequences; 13 The Rejection of Reality: How the Denial of Science Threatens Us All; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
요약	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 reac.
일반주제명	Science -- Political aspects. Science -- Social aspects. Pseudoscience. Science --Social aspects. Science --Political aspects. REFERENCE / Questions & Answers.
분류기호(DDC)	001.9
언어	영어
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