We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

by Jason Blakely

Book Overview

Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190087382
• ISBN13: 9780190087388
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"