The knowledge wars / Peter Doherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doherty, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a passionate case for citizens to become informed so they are able to evaluate the facts of any scientific debate. It provides practical advice on how to analyse research and take meaningful action. The Knowledge Wars challenges our assumptions and encourages us to take an evidence-based view of the world. There's something here to offend everybody!

Contents:

Intro

TITLE

COPYRIGHT

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

1. A new beginning

2. Education, knowledge and power

3. Invention, new knowledge and the basic rules of science

WORKING SCIENTISTS

4. Early modern science and the first scientists

5. Investigating the scientists of today

6. Get involved-be a citizen scientist

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

7. Fraud, error, criminality and correction

8. The culture of critique and the character of critics

9. Scepticism and denial-power and responsibility

BELIEF, EVIDENCE AND THE POWER OF NARRATIVE

10. Invented narrative and deliberate ignorance

11. The reality of faith

12. Basic limits and tensions in the knowledge/power equation

REALITY: IMPERFECT FOR HUMANS, INEXORABLE FOR NATURE

13. False left/right divides and the lesser of two evils

14. Reality cannot be denied

APPENDICES

A. Checking out a scientist

B. Reading the science literature

C. Open access and the economics of publishing

D. Peer review

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522862867

0522862861

OCLC:

1499719665