Unreasonable monkey
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The ability to think critically, not to succumb to panic, to separate the facts from fiction, and scientific data from the fantasies of charlatans - all this can literally save life. Well, or, at least, it will help to be in this life not an unreasonable monkey, but a thinking person, homo sapiens. Moreover, both in the bowels of history and in the modern world, we meet a lot of examples of how the most crazy, dense and ignorant theories are clothed in the form of serious scientific research and are perceived as immutable truth. One of the main tasks of this book is the struggle against pseudoscience in all its manifestations. Disassembleing the most striking examples of pseudo -scientific myths and pseudoscientific hypotheses, Grains analyzes in detail how they are created, why they have such an influence on people, what to do so as not to fall under their influence, and how to win them.
A book that not only clearly shows why the ability to think critically is vital to a modern person, but also very successfully teaches how to develop this skill.
Never the fight against pseudoscientific myths has been so exciting and informative.
What is "errors of the retained middle" and how did this delusion cause a wave of panic, based on the allegedly proved connection of the radiation of mobile phones and the occurrence of cancer tumors? Why, even despite the incredible number of proven scientific data, several erroneous statements and unproven articles in newspapers are able to lead to these tragedies, as happened at the beginning of the two thousand years in the UK, where outbreaks of virulatory illness and real human victims began as a result of the "anti -reference wave" ? Why is the tactics of "appeal to nature", so popular in alternative medicine, is erroneous? Why are more and more people confident that vaccinations lead to autism, and the government hides literally everything - from the medicine for cancer to contacts with aliens? In his book, David Robert Grains not only tells how the most egregious pseudoscientific theories appear, but also gives effective recipes on how to separate science from wild and illiterate fiction, which at the same time seems so logical and truthful
A book that not only clearly shows why the ability to think critically is vital to a modern person, but also very successfully teaches how to develop this skill.
Never the fight against pseudoscientific myths has been so exciting and informative.
What is "errors of the retained middle" and how did this delusion cause a wave of panic, based on the allegedly proved connection of the radiation of mobile phones and the occurrence of cancer tumors? Why, even despite the incredible number of proven scientific data, several erroneous statements and unproven articles in newspapers are able to lead to these tragedies, as happened at the beginning of the two thousand years in the UK, where outbreaks of virulatory illness and real human victims began as a result of the "anti -reference wave" ? Why is the tactics of "appeal to nature", so popular in alternative medicine, is erroneous? Why are more and more people confident that vaccinations lead to autism, and the government hides literally everything - from the medicine for cancer to contacts with aliens? In his book, David Robert Grains not only tells how the most egregious pseudoscientific theories appear, but also gives effective recipes on how to separate science from wild and illiterate fiction, which at the same time seems so logical and truthful
Author:
Author:Граймс Д.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Comics and Graphic Novels
- Category:Reference books
- Category:Natural sciences
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:printing
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-152607-8
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