Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America / Andrew Jewett.
Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America / Andrew Jewett.
Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America / Andrew Jewett.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/4559
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English
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356 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction: Science by association -- Making modern minds -- Resisting the modern -- A scientific state -- Science and human behavior -- Facts and values -- Two cultures -- A new right -- Cross-fertilization -- A new left -- Skepticism instantiated -- Beyond universalism -- Conclusion: Scientific...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Massachusetts
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2020.
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"Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science's celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attach...
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Science under fire : challenges to scientific authority in modern America / Andrew Jewett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/4559
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74VKaKqAoxAg
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0674987918
9780674987913
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303.4830973
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991024361318602626
