Denialism
Subtitle: how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives
By: Michael Specter.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781594202308
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects; Research -- Forecasting; Belief and doubt; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vioxx and the fear of science; title: Vaccines and the great denial; title: The organic fetish; title: The era of echinacea; title: Race and the language of life; title: Surfing the exponential.