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Reality Check Ho Science Deniers Threaten Our Future [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Science)
  • Author:  Prothero, Donald R.
  • Author:  Prothero, Donald R.
  • ISBN-10:  0253024544
  • ISBN-10:  0253024544
  • ISBN-13:  9780253024541
  • ISBN-13:  9780253024541
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Pages:  392
  • Pages:  392
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2017
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2017
  • SKU:  0253024544-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0253024544-11-MPOD
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The 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 countryall 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, Donald R. Prothero 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. Prothero 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.

2013 Foreword Book of the Year Award Silver Winner, Science

Recipient of the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences.

Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has published 32 books, including Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres (IUP, 2013); Earth: Portrait of a Planet; The Evolution of Earth; Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters; Catastrophes!; and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (IUP, 2006).

Reality Check is an entertaining, thought-provoking, and informative read.Prothero is a skeptic. So am I. When we call ourselves skeptics we mean simply that we take a scientific approachl$
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