| Description |
1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy -- The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions |
| Summary |
In this work, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to 17th-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Social aspects -- Forecasting
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Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects -- Forecasting
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Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012038843 |
| ISBN |
9780199857104 |
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0199857105 |
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9780199345410 |
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0199345414 |
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