Tainted : exposing bad science, practicing philosophy of science / Kristin Shrader-Frechette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon), author.

Series:

Environmental ethics and science policy.

Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Errors, Scientific.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lawyers often work pro bono to liberate death-row inmates from flawed legal verdicts that otherwise would kill them. This is the first book on practical philosophy of science, how to practically evaluate scientific findings with life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws - typically used by special interests who try to justify their pollution - this book aims to liberate many potential victims of environmentally induced disease and death.

Contents:

Cover; Series; Tainted; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1. Speaking Truth to Power: Uncovering Flawed Methods, Protecting Lives and Welfare; Part I Conceptual and Logical Analysis; Chapter 2. Discovering Dump Dangers: Unearthing Hazards in Hydrogeology; Chapter 3. Hormesis Harms: The Emperor Has No Biochemistry Clothes; Chapter 4. Trading Lives for Money: Compensating Wage Differentials in Economics; Part II Heuristic Analysis and Developing Hypotheses; Chapter 5. Learning from Analogy: Extrapolating from Animal Data in Toxicology

Chapter 6. Conjectures and Conflict: A Thought Experiment in PhysicsChapter 7. Being a Disease Detective: Discovering Causes in Epidemiology; Chapter 8. Why Statistics Is Slippery: Easy Algorithms Fail in Biology; Part III Methodological Analysis and Justifying Hypotheses; Chapter 9. Releasing Radioactivity: Hypothesis-Prediction in Hydrogeology; Chapter 10. Protecting Florida Panthers: Historical-Comparativist Methods in Zoology; Chapter 11. Cracking Case Studies: Why They Work in Sciences such as Ecology; Chapter 12. Uncovering Cover-Up: Inference to the Best Explanation in Medicine

Part IV Values Analysis and Scientific UncertaintyChapter 13. Value Judgments Can Kill: Expected-Utility Rules in Decision Theory; Chapter 14. Understanding Uncertainty: False Negatives in Quantitative Risk Analysis; Chapter 15. Where We Go from Here: Making Philosophy of Science Practical; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-939643-4

0-19-939642-6

OCLC:

889207260