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The War on Science
- Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
- De: Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 20 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
In every issue of modern society - from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense - we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress and a simultaneous expansion of danger. At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science: the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science.
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5 out of 5 stars
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couldn’t be timelier
- De Midwestbonsai en 02-06-17
- The War on Science
- Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
- De: Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
Definitely worth listening to.
Revisado: 05-11-17
Excellent book. Takes a much broader perspective than books such as Merchants of Doubt, which focus more specifically on corporate interference with and obfuscation of science to protect industrial interests. Otto covers this, but also looks more deeply at cultural and philosophical threats to science, as well as the failure of science to promote itself and nurture its own relationship with society.
In some places the early chapters are a little thinly argued, but I think that's just a consequence of taking a broad perspective and trying to cover a lot of territory in a single book.
The audio is slightly marred by Peter Berkrot's delivery. His voice is fine, but unfortunately he has the intonation of a video game villain. It really isn't appropriate to the subject matter and was very distracting for the first several chapters, although I eventually got used to it.
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