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29%OFFRobert Ehrlich - Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming - 9780691124049 - V9780691124049
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Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming

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Description for Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming Paperback. Evaluates the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. This book takes up issues such as global warming, the dangers of cholesterol, and the effectiveness of placebos. It shows readers how to use the tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the trustworthiness of ubiquitous "experts." Num Pages: 352 pages, 14 halftones. 43 line illus. 65 tables. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
Placebo cures. Global warming. Extraterrestrial life. Psychokinesis. In a time when scientific claims can sound as strange as science fiction--and can have a profound effect on individual life or public policy--assessing the merits of a far-out, supposedly scientific idea can be as difficult as it is urgent. Into the breach between helpless gullibility and unyielding skepticism steps physicist Robert Ehrlich, with an indispensable guide to making sense of "scientific" claims. A series of case studies of some of the most controversial (and for the judging public, deeply vexing) topics in the natural and social sciences, Ehrlich's book serves as a ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691124049
SKU
V9780691124049
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About Robert Ehrlich
Robert Ehrlich is Professor of Physics at George Mason University and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of twenty books, including "Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True", "Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down", and "Turning the World Inside Out & 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations" (all Princeton).

Reviews for Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming
"Ehrlich insists that, with little homework, anyone can tool up enough mentally to discriminate between the wholly plausible and the downright dodgy."
Anjana Ahuja, The Times (London) "Ehrlich has set himself the heroic task, concealed beneath his flippant title, of confronting the tide of irrationality in what is in effect a manual of scientific reasoning... He has dug consistently deep and ... Read more

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