The doomsday lobby hype and panic from Sputniks, martians, and marauding meteors
From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Benn...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456225406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- and Overview
- American Science before the Bomb
- Dr. Bush Fathers a Foundation
- Oh Sputnik! How the Educationists Prospered from a Russian Satellite
- To Mars! (But Why?)
- The Chicken Littles of Big Science; or, Here Come the Killer Asteroids!
- Conclusion: The Only Way to Keep the Sky from Falling Is….
