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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims--including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives--and what he learned from the experience"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point...
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