Counterknowledge
Subtitle: how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science, and fake history
By: Damian Thompson.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780393067699
Subjects: Belief and doubt; Credulity; Common fallacies; Religion and science
Description: From conspiracy theories to alternative medicine, people are experiencing an epidemic of untrue descriptions of the world. Following in the footsteps of Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion" and Sam Harris's "The End of Faith," this work is a defense of scientific proof in an age of fabrication.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: Knowledge and counterknowledge; title: Creationism and counterknowledge; title: The return of pseudohistory; title: Desperate remedies; title: The counterknowledge industry; title: Living with counterknowledge.