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Scientists as Prophets

Scientists as Prophets
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780199857111
ISBN-13 : 0199857113
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Book Synopsis Scientists as Prophets by : Lynda Walsh

Download or read book Scientists as Prophets written by Lynda Walsh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.


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