Not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science

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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
©2017.
Language
English

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Levitan, a journalist, illustrates how politicians try to talk about science and fail. He organizes their errors into categories, such as oversimplification, cherry-picking, demonizing, blaming bloggers, ridiculing and dismissing, honing in on a specific definition, taking credit, repeating information from outdated or debunked science, fabrication, and ignoring and not talking about a problem, describing examples, how the methods work, why politicians get specific scientific issues wrong, and how to recognize them in the future. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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9780393353327
039335332

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