Denialism, Michael Specter
Denialism, Michael Specter
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Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives

Author: Michael Specter

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/26/2010


Synopsis

New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council's Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lena

Over the last few years, I've become increasingly interested in the gap between scientific and technological developments and the public perception of those developments. In Denialism, journalist Michael Specter dives straight into this gap and makes a compelling argument that this problem is among......more

Goodreads review by John

This book is excellent for what it is: a general overview of several examples which illustrate "denialism". No, it doesn't offer much in the way of solutions to the issues it addresses: I didn't expect it to. Of course it would have been nice, but I'm against the idea that people should not promote a......more