How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives, was published on october 29, 2009. In this provocative and headline making book, michael specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. Specter studies how the active movements against vaccines, genetically engineered food. In this provocative and headlinemaking book, michael specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives, published november 2009. In this provocative and headlinemaking book, michael specter confronts the. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor badthat it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives by michael specter. How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet. Michael specter, a science and public health writer for the new yorker, shows little interest in the first approach in his pugnacious new book. A lucid and insightful book about a very frightening and irrational phenomenonthe. In denialism, new yorker staff writer michael specter reveals that americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. Although this book is called denialism, you will find nothing but passing references to holocaust denial or evolution denial, and nothing at all about the rampant climate change denial industry.
Michael specter, a science and public health writer for the new yorker, shows little interest in the first approach in his pugnacious new book, denialism, which carries the ominous subtitle. Instead, there is a ragbag of mainly medical and biological topics, ranging from the vioxx scandal through irrational fear of gm foods to the pernicious antivaccination movement to the moral challenge of designer babies. In denialism, new yorker staff writer michael specter reveals that americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more. In denialism, new yorker staff writer michael specter reveals that americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the. Michael specter fires bullets of data at cozy antiscience in. That gibbon is not michael specter, a new yorker staff writer and author of the. Michael specters new book denialism misses its targets. Few journalists appreciate what is at stake better than michael specter, who. How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet and threatens our lives, dives into a worrisome strain of modern life a vocal antiscience bias that may prevent us from making the right choices for our future.
New yorker staff writer michael specter argues for a new enlightenment in his newlyreleased book denialism. How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives, published november. Michael specters hotly argued diatribe targets those he thinks are. How irrational thinking harms the planet and threatens our.
Instead, there is a ragbag of mainly medical and biological topics, ranging from the vioxx scandal through irrational fear of gm foods to the pernicious antivaccination movement to the moral. Michael specter has been a staff writer at the new yorker since 1998. Denialism how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives. Specter writes often about science, technology, and public health.
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