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Denialism: how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives

✍ Scribed by Michael Specter

Publisher: Penguin Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 172 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 1101149736

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✦ Synopsis

An assessment of the ways in which the scientific community is mistrusted cites the consequences of such fear-based behaviors as the avoidance of vaccines, the banning of genetically modified crops, and the denouncement of the pharmaceutical industry.;Vioxx and the fear of science -- Vaccines and the great denial -- The organic fetish -- The era of echinacea -- Race and the language of life -- Surfing the exponential.

✦ Subjects

Sciences -- Aspect social

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