Not a scientist : how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science / Dave Levitan
By: Levitan, Dave [author].
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]Edition: First edition.Description: xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393353327.Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects | Technology -- Social aspects | Science -- Political aspects | Technology -- Political aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | Q175.5 .L4745 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010948 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The oversimplification -- The cherry-pick -- The butter-up and undercut -- The demonizer -- The blame the blogger -- The ridicule and dismiss -- The literal nitpick -- The credit snatch -- The certain uncertainty -- The blind eye to follow-up -- The lost in translation -- The straight-up fabrication
Politicians who have chosen to act as advocates for vested corporate interests have been known to manipulate and distort scientific facts. Some politicians don't have malevolent intentions: they just don't understand science, and repeat what their sources gather for them. Levitan helps you spot the types of blunders and obfuscations that flood the media and create an anti-science acceptance that affects our world