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Faith in fallacy : a century of state-sanctioned science denial / James Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, James, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pseudoscience.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Science--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Science and medicine have brought about many improvements in both the length and quality of human life. Nevertheless, at various times in history nations have rejected science in favour of pseudoscience. 'Faith in Fallacy' brings together various examples of state science denial and its consequences, examining what they have in common and how they differ.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- 1 Humanity's Debt to Science
- Part I State Science Denial under Totalitarianism
- 2 Lysenko and the Origins of Soviet Pseudoscience
- Pioneers of Science
- The Barefoot Professor
- Vavilov: The Mendeleev of Biology
- The 1929 Leningrad Conference
- Wreckers
- 3 Refashioning Heredity
- Statesman of Science
- Holodomor
- The Terror Begins
- Michurinism: Lysenkoism Rebranded
- Naming Names
- 4 Pseudoscience Defeats Science
- False Claims and Failed Experiments
- Gathering Clouds
- We Cannot Go on This Way
- Lysenko Towers Above
- The Death of Vavilov
- 5 Rise and Fall
- Sunflowers into Strangleweed
- The 1948 Lenin Academy Conference
- Song of the Forests
- At Khrushchev's Side
- Graham Visits Lysenko
- Bloodlands
- 6 Big Brother, Little Brother
- Mao and the Victory of Communism
- Michurinism Comes to China
- The Qingdao Symposium
- Mao's Constitution
- Tombstone
- 7 Jewish Physics
- Mein Kampf
- German Physics
- The Nazification of a Physicist
- Heisenberg and Das Schwarze Korps
- 8 House of Shutters
- The Eugenics Movement
- Nazi Racial Hygiene
- Hadamar
- The Hadamar Trials
- Part II State-Sanctioned Science Denial in Democracies
- 9 AIDS
- An Exotic New Disease
- The 1984 Press Conference
- Denialist Roles
- The Villain and the Head of State
- 10 A Predictable Emergency
- Crimson Contagion
- "This Is a Flu"
- Stop the Spread
- Quackery
- 11 Protective Measures
- The Spanish Flu
- Testing
- Masks
- Vaccines
- Operation Warp Speed
- 12 Politicization of COVID-19 Denial
- Red States vs. Blue States
- Falling Confidence in Medicine
- Lost Window of Opportunity
- The Tropical Trump
- 13 Global Warming: The Ultimate Triumph of Science Denial?.
- The Politicization of Global Warming
- Merchants of Doubt
- The Perfect Metaphor
- 14 Roadmap to Doomsday
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197784716
- 0197784712
- 9780197784693
- 0197784690
- 9780197784709
- 0197784704
- OCLC:
- 1450555645
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