When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations

by Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S Steel, Brent S. Steel

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This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus--and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well as conservatives.

In 2010, an outbreak of whooping cough in California infected more than 8,000 people, resulting in the hospitalization of more than 800...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1440849838

ISBN13:9781440849831

Release Date:December 2017

Publisher:Praeger

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Age Range:7 to 17 years

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Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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