| Description |
xvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. A Personal Reflection -- 2. Scientific Illiteracy: From "Creation Science" to Graphology -- 3. Anecdote, Coincidence and Pattern: Understanding the Language of Science -- 4. Political Science: The Role of Government in the Scientific Process -- 5. Global Environmental Problems: A Small Look at the Big Picture -- 6. Endangered Species -- 7. Better Living through Chemistry -- 8. You Are What You Eat -- 9. Land of Many Abuses -- 10. Myths of the Technological Fix -- 11. Prospects |
| Summary |
As the role of science and technology in everyday life grows both more pervasive and more complex, it has become ever more difficult for a scientifically "illiterate" public to make informed judgments. In Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense, Michael Zimmerman takes on a wide range of falsifiers, disinformation specialists, and charlatans to provide readers with the scientific background necessary to evaluate environmental and other current issues that increasingly may be a matter of life and death |
| Analysis |
Society Role of Technology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Environmental education -- Popular works.
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Environmental education.
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Environmental literacy -- Popular works.
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Science -- Popular works.
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Science -- Social aspects -- Popular works.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects -- Popular works.
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Science.
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Sociology.
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| LC no. |
95005006 |
| ISBN |
0801850908 |
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0801857740 |
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