Naomi Oreskes
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Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength--and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy...
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The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People's Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered into a Penumbral period in the early decades of the twenty-first century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about global change were prohibited and clear warnings of climate...
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En ¿Por qué confiar en la ciencia? la profesora Naomi Oreskes ofrece respuestas claras y convincentes a las preguntas de cuándo y por qué los hallazgos científicos son confiables. Explica la base de la confianza en la ciencia en una prosa muy legible, e ilustra su argumento con vívidos ejemplos de la ciencia funcionando como debería, y cómo no debería, en asuntos centrales de nuestras vidas. Los lectores encontrarán aquí una enérgica defensa...