Creating scientific controversies
Subtitle: uncertainty and bias in science and society
By: David Harker
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781107692367
Subjects: Science; Skepticism; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Scientific authority and the created controversy --; title: Lessons from the philosophy of science --; title: Defining science and the empiricist approach --; title: Challenges for the naïve empiricist --; title: A revolution in how we think about sciences --; title: Sciences as historically and socially situated --; title: Points to remember : part I --; title: Biases, arguments and created controversies --; title: Inherent irrationality: cognitive biases and heuristics --; title: Thinking more clearly : arguments, reasoning and informal fallacies --; title: Created controversies and how to detect them --; title: Points to remember : part II --; title: Exposing created controversies --; title: Environmental scare : the case of anthropogenic climate change --; title: Sciences, religion and an intelligently designed controversy? --; title: Issues of public health: aids, autism and gmos --; title: Points to remember : part III.