Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era - Couverture souple

Finkel, Elizabeth

 
9781760642716: Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1760642711 ISBN 13 : 9781760642716
Editeur : La Trobe University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A compelling journey through science's big breakthroughs, by an award-winning Australian science writer

Humans developed the scientific method over centuries. Its departure from what came before was that theories should be fuelled by data, not opinion. Today, the institutions that underpin democracy - the law, academia, government, journalism - all rely on its central idea: seeking facts and interrogating them through robust discussion and real-world testing. Yet in the post-truth era, public conversations can feel far from scientific.

In Prove It, Elizabeth Finkel describes how the scientific method plays out in a series of controversies, from proving the existence of Einstein's gravitational waves to identifying the origins of Covid-19, from understanding human origins to defining consciousness. Through these tales of dispute and discovery, she breaks down the key elements of scientific thinking.

Full of politics, prejudice, obsession, heroism and eccentricity, Prove It captures the drama and excitement of scientific discovery and debate and argues compellingly that its lessons are more crucial now than ever.

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À propos de l?auteur

Elizabeth Finkel holds a PhD in biochemistry and spent ten years as a research scientist before becoming an award-winning journalist and author of The Genome Generation, among other books. She is a founding editor of Cosmos magazine and a regular contributor to the US magazine Science, Radio National's Science Show and The Monthly. Her awards include a Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science, the National Press Club's award for Higher Education Journalist of the Year and the Eureka Award for Science Journalism.

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Éditeur
La Trobe University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1760642711
ISBN 13 
9781760642716
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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