Science left behind : feel-good fallacies and the rise of the anti-scientific left / Alex Berezow, Hank Campbell.
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- ISBN: 9781610391641 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1610391640 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781610391658 (electronic)
- ISBN: 1610391659 (electronic)
- Physical Description: viii, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-292) and index. |
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Subject: | Science > Political aspects > United States. Science and state > United States. |
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Science Left Behind : Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction: The Progressive War on Spoons | p. 1 | |
1 | What's a Progressive? | p. 9 |
2 | The State of the "Pro-Science" Union | p. 21 |
3 | Organic Food: The Holy Eucharist of Environmentalism | p. 39 |
4 | Food Fight! | p. 57 |
5 | Crappy Conservation and Clean Energy Chaos | p. 69 |
6 | Sunshine Days and Flower Power | p. 89 |
7 | Bring on the Vaccines and Viagra | p. 109 |
8 | PETA: Professional Experimenters Testing on Animals | p. 125 |
9 | Welcome to the Anti-Renaissance | p. 141 |
10 | Boys Have Wee-Wees and Girls Have Hoo-Hoos | p. 161 |
11 | Education and Its Discontents | p. 177 |
12 | The Death of Science Journalism | p. 195 |
13 | False Equivalence | p. 209 |
14 | The War on Excellence | p. 225 |
15 | Twelve Issues for 2012 and Beyond | p. 239 |
Conclusion Closing Arguments: An Appeal to Scientific Reasoning | p. 257 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 261 | |
Notes | p. 263 | |
Index | p. 293 |