From climate change to vaccinations, we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress. Yet, scientists and the very idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded war on science. This compelling book investigates the historical, social, philosophical, political, and emotional reasons why evidence-based politics are in decline—and provides some compelling solutions.
If you care about attacks on climate science and the rise of authoritarianism, this book is for you.” —The Guardian
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One of TC's favorite philosophers was Bertrand Russell. She was also persistent in creating episodes between the Greek philosopher, Anaxagorus and Pericles in Glory and the Lightning. Also, in alluding to Zeno of the movement paradoxes fame. You could be forgiven for thinking she understood the math and science behind their thinking. Forgiven, yet alas, she definitely did not. She used each of these personages, with historical records of their thoughts, solely to aggrandize her mission of placing her political conservatism in the mouths of these famous people.
I have been invited to lunch on many occasions by ministers of churches I have frequented. Before the repast prayer, invariably comes a confession – I was poor at math. So sayeth the minister. Hardly was this a shock to me, but still an indication of how close to the surface it is for most people that science/math scares them in a primordial way. You might think that they feared being placed on a football field, with someone who might visiously tackle them causing irreparable harm.
The funding, continued by the money funnel Charles Koch, an assiduous user of precise chemistry for his enterprises, to constantly thwart the rest of the population from understanding what goes on with the movement of air, and the burning of materials in that air, is a case of selfish hypocrisy whose modern adherents can easily be traced back to the John Birch Society. Recall the position of TC and the father, Fred Koch, in the still extant home page of the JBS.
What to do with this? Oh, woe is me, what exactly to do with this? |
