
DENIALISM
How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
By Michael Specter
294 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95
que começa assim:
"The optimistic view of science is that the theories advanced with its methods will have self-evident appeal to an educated public. Why, then, do people so often behave unscientifically? A sitting congressman claims he’s seen a U.F.O.; a former Playboy model insists, against overwhelming evidence, that childhood vaccines cause autism; Las Vegas vacationers expect to beat the casinos; former British Prime Minister Tony Blair treats his children with homeopathic remedies."
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