Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / Michael Zimmerman.
Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / Michael Zimmerman.
Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / Michael Zimmerman.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N303.483/176
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English
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xvi, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
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1. A Personal Reflection -- 2. Scientific Illiteracy: From "Creation Science" to Graphology -- 3. Anecdote, Coincidence and Pattern: Understanding the Language of Science -- 4. Political Science: The Role of Government in the Scientific Process -- 5. Global Environmental Problems: A Small Look at th...
Zimmerman begins by showing just what science is -and how the criteria of skepticism and falsifiability distinguish it from pseudoscience and mysticism. He offers intelligent, entertaining, and sometimes scathing analyses of bad science - from lottery "systems" and creationism to graphologists and h...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Maryland
Date Published
1995.
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As the role of science and technology in everyday life grows both more pervasive and more complex, it has become ever more difficult for a scientifically "illiterate" public to make informed judgments. In Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense, Michael Zimmerman takes on a wide range of falsifiers, disinformation specialists, and charlatans to provide r...
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Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / Michael Zimmerman.
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Includes index.
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0801857740 (pbk.)
9780801850905 (acid-free paper)
0801850908 (acid-free paper)
9780801857744 (pbk.)
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303.483
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991003110879702626
