Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and donâ ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.
Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and donâ ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul A. Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning physician, coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of several books on medical and scientific issues including, from Columbia University Press, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (2007) and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction (2011, with Charlotte A. Moser).
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: On Being Naïve 1. What Science Is and What It Isn t 2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms 3. An Alibi for Ignorance 4. Feeding the Beast 5. To Debate or Not to Debate 6. Make Em Laugh 7. Science Goes to the Movies 8. The Emperor s New Clothes 9. Judgment Day 10. The Nuclear Option 11. Pharma Shill 12. A Ray of Hope Epilogue: The End of the Tour Acknowledgments Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Prologue: On Being Naïve 1. What Science Is and What It Isn t 2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms 3. An Alibi for Ignorance 4. Feeding the Beast 5. To Debate or Not to Debate 6. Make Em Laugh 7. Science Goes to the Movies 8. The Emperor s New Clothes 9. Judgment Day 10. The Nuclear Option 11. Pharma Shill 12. A Ray of Hope Epilogue: The End of the Tour Acknowledgments Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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