Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history / Damian Thompson.
2008
BF773 .T46 2008 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection
Items
Details
Title
Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history / Damian Thompson.
Author
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780393067699
0393067696
0393067696
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
Language
English
Description
162 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
BF773 .T46 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
001.9/6
Summary
From conspiracy theories to alternative medicine, people are experiencing an epidemic of untrue descriptions of the world. Following in the footsteps of Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion" and Sam Harris's "The End of Faith," this work is a defense of scientific proof in an age of fabrication.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-162).
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
Knowledge and counterknowledge
Creationism and counterknowledge
The return of pseudohistory
Desperate remedies
The counterknowledge industry
Living with counterknowledge.
Creationism and counterknowledge
The return of pseudohistory
Desperate remedies
The counterknowledge industry
Living with counterknowledge.