The war on science
by Shawn Otto · first published 2016
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Examines the current state of science in the political sphere, looking at how strategies for alleviating global warming are resisted by powerful interests and faith-based objections to the teaching of evolution erupt from the public. The politicization of science is nothing new, of course. Ever since Galileo's clash with the Roman Catholic Church, advances in scientific knowledge have had a strained relationship with powerful interests.
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…lot of money, and it comes not only from one political direction. It is complex, it's not only a single ideology or a single religious group, but there are multiple correlations. See the books: "The War on Science" by Shawn Otto and "Merchants of Doubt" by Oreskes and Conway.
on “The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter” ↗…been around for fifty years, there was in principle no research on whether or not it worked." From the books about pseudo-scientific claims presented in media as "real" science I also recommend "The War On Science" by Shawn Otto: https://milkweed.org/book/the-war-on-science and "Merchants of Doubt" by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/merchants-of-doubt-97815969161... In short,…
on “How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”” ↗Non-fiction: - Factfulness by Hans Rosling - The War on Science by Shawn Otto - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan - The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier Fiction:…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗…federal government with tax incentives in response to the threat of nuclear war. The idea was to spread populations out away from the cities, where a single bomb could kill millions. Shawn Otto's book The War on Science covers this development in great detail, which I've clipped here: http://mxplx.com/meme/2504/
on “Why Many Cities Have No Money” ↗