Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin

Dean, Cornelia

ISBN 10: 0674059697 / ISBN 13: 9780674059696

Edité par Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2017

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Flawless brand new 1st printing SIGNED, dated ("4-21-18") and placed ("Los Angeles") on the title page without inscription. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. Praise for Cornelia Dean's earlier book Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientist's Guide to Talking to the Public: "If you want the facts, laid down in a simple, unfussy style, then get a copy of Am I Making Myself Clear? This book should sit on the shelf of every scientist, science communicator and university press officer. I've never read a better, more thorough guide to science communication in all its forms." -- Gia Milinovich, Nature.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674059697
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674059696
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.

Présentation de l'éditeur

I m not a scientist is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation to readers. Politicians, activists, business spokespersons, and religious leaders with their own agendas to pursue also influence the way science is reported and discussed. Meanwhile, anyone seeking factual information on climate change, vaccine safety, risk of terrorist attack, or other topics in the news must sift through an avalanche of bogus assertions and self-interested spin.

Making Sense of Science seeks to equip nonscientists with a set of critical tools to evaluate the scientific claims and controversies that shape our lives. Cornelia Dean draws on thirty years of experience as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers with little background in science. Shortcomings in K 12 education are partly to blame, but so too is the public s indifference to the way science is done and communicated. Dean shows how venues such as courtrooms and talk shows become fonts of scientific misinformation. She also calls attention to the conflicts of interest that color scientific research, as well as the price society pays when science journalism declines and government funding for research dries up.

Timely and provocative, Making Sense of Science warns us all that we can no longer afford to make a virtue of our collective scientific ignorance.

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