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001			ocn812509019
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093324.0
008			130607s2013 inua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013017607
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780253010292
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019			_a874031226
020			_a9780253010292 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0253010292 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_z9780253010360 (ebook)
020			_a0253010365 (ebk.)
020			_a9780253010360 (ebk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)812509019 _z(OCoLC)874031226
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aQ172.5.P77 _bP69 2013
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aProthero, Donald R.
245	1	0	_aReality check : _bhow science deniers threaten our future / _cDonald R. Prothero ; foreword by Michael Shermer ; Illustrations by Pat Linse.
246	3	0	_aHow science deniers threaten our future
264		1	_aBloomington and Indianapolis : _bIndiana University Press, _c2013.
300			_axvi, 369 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aReality check -- Science, our candle in the darkness -- Betrayers of the truth: selling out science -- Making the environment the enemy: acid rain, the ozone hole, and the demonization of Rachel Carson -- Hot enough for you? The heated debate over a warming planet -- Gimme that old time religion: creationism, intelligent design, and the denial of humanity's place in nature -- Jenny's body count: playing Russian roulette with our children -- Victims of modern witch doctors: AIDS denialism -- If it quacks like a quack: snake-oil con artists in an era of medical science -- What's your sign? the ancient pseudoscience of astrology -- Down the slope of Hubbert's curve: the end of cheap oil and natural resources -- Far from the madding crowd: human overpopulation and its consequences -- The rejection of reality: how the denial of science threatens us all.
520			_aThe battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country, all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent or flatly deny demonstrable scientific reality to protect their nonscientific ideology, their power, or their bottom line. To shed light on this darkness, the author explains the scientific process and why society has come to rely on science not only to provide a better life but also to reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by the entire scientific community (evolution, anthropogenic global warming, vaccination, the HIV cause of AIDS, and others) have been attacked with totally unscientific arguments and methods. He argues that science deniers pose a serious threat to society, as their attempts to subvert the truth have resulted in widespread scientific ignorance, increased risk of global catastrophes, and deaths due to the spread of diseases that could have been prevented.
650		0	_aPseudoscience.
650		0	_aScience _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aScience _xPolitical aspects.
650		7	_aPseudoscience. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01080912
650		7	_aScience _xPolitical aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01108343
650		7	_aScience _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01108360
650		7	_aPseudowissenschaft. _2gnd
650		7	_aGesellschaft. _2gnd
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