The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science is a book, released in which year, by journalist Tom Bethell, he writes mainly on economic and scientific issues, and is known for his writings on the market economy, political conservatism, and fringe science?
4fb14584197cfc60eed30acec771367c
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science is a 2005 book by journalist Tom Bethell. It is the third book in the "Politically Incorrect Guides" series published by Regnery Publishing, after the Guides to American History and Islam. Bethell addresses issues including HIV/AIDS denialism, intelligent design, and the relationship between science and Christianity. Some parts of the book were later expanded in the "Politically Incorrect Guides" to "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design" (2006) and "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism" (2007).
6a2432765b0210e2fbb5c24c52296b43
Tom Bethell Tom Bethell ( ; born July 17, 1936) is a journalist who writes mainly on economic and scientific issues, and is known for his writings on the market economy, political conservatism, and fringe science.
51e55c969611782adc1ecd936541f310
The Scientific Activist The Scientific Activist was a blog that covers science, politics, and science policy, run by Nick Anthis, a graduate student in biochemistry and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. The Scientific Activist gained international recognition in February 2006 when it published information that led to the immediate resignation of Bush Administration NASA appointee George Deutsch. Deutsch—who had been accused of censoring scientific information at NASA—claimed to have graduated from Texas A&M University on his résumé, but Anthis discovered that Deutsch had not, in fact, completed his degree there.
af24f3ccf2bca67683a316a6624d2dc1
Of Moths and Men Of Moths and Men is a controversial book by the journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth which were intended as experimental validation of evolution. She highlights concerns about the methodology of Kettlewell's experiments and suggests that these issues could invalidate the results obtained, ignoring or disparaging evidence supporting natural selection while repeatedly implying that Kettlewell and his colleagues committed fraud or made careless errors. Subject matter experts have described the book as presenting a "conspiracy theory" with "errors, misrepresentations, misinterpretations and falsehoods".
e33c2a0f48a4d9818f7c6d40addd4c8d
Daniel Halper Daniel Halper is an American political writer. He serves as the online editor of the conservative news publication "The Weekly Standard" and is the author of an unflattering 2014 biography of the Clinton family titled "Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine" (ISBN  ).
4646813ce304d661838f41c04aa977bb
Lew Rockwell Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell Jr. (born July 1, 1944) is an American author, editor, and political consultant. A libertarian and a self-professed anarcho-capitalist, he founded (and is chairman of) the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the Austrian School of economics. He also started a website in 1999, LewRockwell.com, that features articles and blog entries by a number of right-wing libertarian columnists and writers.
3cd573cc7bbf3e539f86d87364a0b009
Intelligent design movement The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific idea of intelligent design (ID), which asserts that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the lobbying of policymakers to include its teaching in high school science classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it. The movement arose out of the previous Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic creation science movement in the United States, and is driven by a small group of proponents. The overall goal of the intelligent design movement is to overthrow materialism and atheism. Its proponents believe that society has suffered "devastating" cultural consequences from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of the decay into materialism because it seeks only natural explanations, and is therefore atheistic. They believe that the scientific theory of evolution implies that humans have no spiritual nature, no moral purpose, and no intrinsic meaning. They seek to "reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview" represented by the theory of evolution in favor of "a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
342efcea5671f5c8f5bc01d19af46fea
Science Daily Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
ffe6d2bb722f8aaeedd01debbea750db
Scientific dissent Scientific dissent is dissent from scientific consensus. Disagreements can be useful for finding problems in underlying assumptions, methodologies, and reasoning, as well as for generating and testing new ways of tackling the unknown. In modern times, with the increased role of science on the society and the politicization of science, a new aspect gained prominence: effects of scientific dissent on public policies.
e275d8e05a27ff1aa66179080258778a
Principles of Political Economy (Malthus) Principles of Political Economy (1820) was a successful book by Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). Malthus suggests that the human population will eventually outweigh the amount of food available which would cap the population. Due in part to this theory, Malthus argued that without strict regulation in place on reproduction, humans would never be able to grow as a race. The last chapter of the book was devoted to rebutting Say's law, and argued that the economy could stagnate with a lack of "effectual demand". In other words, wages if less than the total costs of production cannot purchase the total output of industry, causing prices to fall; price falls decrease incentives to invest, creating a downward spiral.
6b671cf4aa27914b14b1760f1ba12651
The Conscience of a Liberal The Conscience of a Liberal is a 2007 book written by economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. It was 24th on the "New York Times Best Seller list" in November 2007. The title was used originally in Senator Paul Wellstone's book of the same name in 2001. Wellstone's title was a response to Barry Goldwater's 1960 book "The Conscience of a Conservative". In the book, Krugman studies the past 80 years of American history in the context of economic inequality. A central theme is the reemergence of both economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Krugman analyzes the causes behind these events and proposes a "new New Deal" for America.
c5afdf10ebfd1006c9fd501e0966fa81
Biology for Christian Schools Biology for Christian Schools is a 1991 school-level biology textbook written from a Young Earth Creation point of view by William S. Pinkston and published by the Bob Jones University Press. The book has been controversial because it espouses the idea of Biblical inerrancy; that whenever science and Christianity conflict, the current scientific understanding is wrong. The book promotes creationism, which is rejected by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers Association who state creationism and intelligent design are pseudoscience.
32149f4fc5c3d2204c91f93cb8962f9f
Sam Wang (neuroscientist) Samuel "Sam" Sheng-Hung Wang (born 1967) is an American professor, neuroscientist, psiphologist and author. He is known for the books "Welcome to Your Brain" and "Welcome to Your Child's Brain", as well as for the "Princeton Election Consortium" psephology website. Wang also gives talks about child brain development, autism, politics, and gerrymandering on television and radio, to academic audiences, and for the general public.
b46d8f35fcb13a745e8f6335cd51f55b
Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems is a book written in 1971 by Jerome Ravetz. The book contains a reasoned illustration of science as a social process with all the failing and imperfections of human endeavors.
afcfdff70019a6630e71384f45ebdfd8
Robert Lawrence Kuhn Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944) is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker. He has a doctorate in brain research and is the author and editor of over 25 books. He is a long-time adviser to China's leaders and the Chinese government, to multinational corporations on China strategies and transactions, and is a frequent commentator on China politics, economics, business, finance, philosophy and science. He is a columnist for "China Daily" and "South China Morning Post" and appears on the "BBC", "CNN", "China Central Television", "Bloomberg" and other major media. Kuhn is the creator and host of the "CCTV News" show "Closer to China with R.L.Kuhn". Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of the public television series "Closer to Truth", which presents scientists and philosophers discussing fundamental issues (cosmos, consciousness, philosophy/religion). His essays are featured on "LiveScience.com" and "Space.com".
ce43c36f0a50246e971eb8cf333498b4
The Economics Anti-Textbook The Economics Anti-Textbook is both an introduction to, and critique of the typical approaches to economics teaching, written by Roderick Hill and Tony Myatt in 2010. The main thrust of the authors' argument is that basic economics courses, being centered on models of perfect competition, are biased towards the support of free market or laissez-faire ideologies, and neglect to mention conflicting evidence or give sufficient coverage of alternative descriptive models.
a99c9265adcfe0279f544dc3ccd40cbb
Mind Hacks Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain is a book using cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to aspects of the brain by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. The book was published by O'Reilly in November 2004 as part of the O'Reilly Hacks series. It has since been published in more than six different languages.
67e2ee18b6b913af8e3f6454621e0ca3
Tom Adkins Tom Adkins (born January 13, 1958) is an American political pundit, political writer, public speaker, real-estate investor, TV Producer and show host.
44a6fa2758fc26f80356c16e8566da94
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science (occasionally abbreviated SkS) is a climate science blog and information resource created in 2007 by Australian cognitive scientist John Cook. In addition to publishing articles on current events relating to climate science and climate policy, the site maintains a large database of articles analyzing the merit of arguments commonly put forth by those who oppose the mainstream scientific opinion on climate change.
418335f825088ab6c70f60dc1ef9f13e
Robert Engler Robert Engler (July 12, 1922 – February 23, 2007) was an American professor emeritus of political science at the City University of New York (and other colleges and universities) and a writer of numerous essays and books on the subject. He was most outspoken regarding the Western world's dependence on oil, a subject on which he wrote two books, "The Politics of Oil" (1961) and "The Brotherhood of Oil" (1977). Engler also wrote numerous essays on an array of subjects for various journals and magazines.
13abc3a3305b114155c6ea209ab6098b
Epistemological anarchism Epistemological anarchism is an epistemological theory advanced by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend which holds that there are no useful and exception-free methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge. It holds that the idea of the operation of science by fixed, universal rules is unrealistic, pernicious, and detrimental to science itself.
ac6a0ed13705eb76864864a75d11ad18
David Brooks (cultural commentator) David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a conservative American author as well as political and cultural commentator who writes for "The New York Times". He has worked as a film critic for "The Washington Times", a reporter and later op-ed editor for "The Wall Street Journal"; a senior editor at "The Weekly Standard" from its inception; a contributing editor at "Newsweek" and "The Atlantic Monthly"; and a commentator on NPR. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and commentator on "PBS NewsHour".