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Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Taschenbuch von Paul Offit
Sprache: Englisch

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Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don¿ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.
Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don¿ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.
Über den Autor
Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: On Being Naïve
1. What Science Is¿and What It Isn¿t
2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms
3. An Alibi for Ignorance
4. Feeding the Beast
5. To Debate or Not to Debate
6. Make ¿Em Laugh
7. Science Goes to the Movies
8. The Emperor¿s New Clothes
9. Judgment Day
10. The Nuclear Option
11. Pharma Shill
12. A Ray of Hope
Epilogue: The End of the Tour
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Grundlagen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780231186995
ISBN-10: 0231186991
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Offit, Paul
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 227 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Offit
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,363 kg
preigu-id: 116198124
Über den Autor
Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: On Being Naïve
1. What Science Is¿and What It Isn¿t
2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms
3. An Alibi for Ignorance
4. Feeding the Beast
5. To Debate or Not to Debate
6. Make ¿Em Laugh
7. Science Goes to the Movies
8. The Emperor¿s New Clothes
9. Judgment Day
10. The Nuclear Option
11. Pharma Shill
12. A Ray of Hope
Epilogue: The End of the Tour
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Grundlagen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780231186995
ISBN-10: 0231186991
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Offit, Paul
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 227 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Offit
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,363 kg
preigu-id: 116198124
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