Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future

by Donald R. Prothero

Book Overview

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 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253010292
• ISBN13: 9780253010292
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"