The War on Science: Whos Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It Otto Shawn LawrencePaperback
The War on Science: Whos Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It Otto Shawn LawrencePaperback Wherever the people are well informed, Thomas Jefferson wrote, they can be trusted with their…
Specifikacia The War on Science: Whos Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It Otto Shawn LawrencePaperback
The War on Science: Whos Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It Otto Shawn LawrencePaperback
Wherever the people are well informed, Thomas Jefferson wrote, they can be trusted with their own government. In every issue of modern society--from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense--we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress and a simultaneous expansion of danger. But what happens when they are not?
The result is an unprecedented erosion of thought in Western democracies as voters, policymakers, and justices actively ignore the evidence from science, leaving major policy decisions to be based more on the demands of the most strident voices.Shawn At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science: the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science.