Fake Science, Austin Ruse
Fake Science, Austin Ruse
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Fake Science
Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data

Author: Austin Ruse

Narrator: Austin Ruse

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 07/17/2017


Synopsis

If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..." You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more sinister, says Austin Ruse. We're actually living in the age of the low information voter, easily mislead by all-too-convincing false statistics and studies. In Fact-Shaming, Ruse debunks so-called "facts" used to advance political causes one after the other, revealing how poorly they stand up to actual science.

About Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse is president of the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam), a New York and Washington, DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He was a longtime contributor to Breitbart, writes a bi-weekly column for Crisis Magazine, and is the author of Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John

This is a political book, as evidenced in the title. Not a science book. But it works. Here's why: The issues it brings up are complex, and the reality is that science has a lot to say about the subjects, but very little to say definitively. However, progressives need evidence to make claims that chan......more

Goodreads review by Jurij

Already in the intro we have quite a lot of questionable logic. Unborn babies are living human beings. I don't know if fetuses are human beings. That's a very specific term. He obviously is anti abortion, but he could have used a term like living being. Or living organism or a fetus with feelings. Ins......more