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Dangerous Science
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Author : Daniel J. Rozell
language : en
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Dangerous Science written by Daniel J. Rozell and has been published by Ubiquity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Science categories.
The public is generally enthusiastic about the latest science and technology, but sometimes research threatens the physical safety or ethical norms of society. When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. In the absence of convincing evidence, technological optimists and skeptics struggle to find common values on which to build consensus. The best way to avoid these situations is to sidestep the instigating controversy by using a broad risk-benefit assessment as a risk exploration tool to help scientists and engineers design experiments and technologies that accomplish intended goals while avoiding physical or moral dangers. Dangerous Science explores the intersection of science policy and risk analysis to detail failures in current science policy practices and what can be done to help minimize the negative impacts of science and technology on society.
Novel Science
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Author : Adelene Buckland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Novel Science written by Adelene Buckland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Science categories.
Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.
Junk Science
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Author : Dan Agin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-11-27
Junk Science written by Dan Agin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-27 with Science categories.
An overdue indictment of government, industry, and faith groups that twist science for their own gain. During the next thirty years, the American public will suffer from a rampage against reason by special interests in government, commerce, and the faith industry, and the rampage has already begun. In Junk Science, Dan Agin offers a response—a stinging condemnation of the egregious and constant warping of science for ideological gain. In this provocative, wide-ranging, and hard-hitting book, Agin argues from the center that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of people who consciously twist the public's understanding of the real world. In an entertaining but frank tone, Agin separates fact from conveniently "scientific" fiction and exposes the data faking, reality ignoring, fear mongering, and outright lying that contribute to intentionally manufactured public ignorance. Many factions twist scientific data to maintain riches and power, and Agin outs them all in sections like these: --"Buyer Beware" (genetically modified foods, aging, and tobacco companies) --"Medical Follies" (chiropractics, health care, talk therapy) --"Poison and Bombs in the Greenhouse" (pollution, warfare, global warming) --"Religion, Embryos, and Cloning" --"Genes, Behavior, and Race" We already pay a heavy price for many groups' conscious manipulation of the public's understanding of science, and Junk Science arms us with understanding, cutting through the fabric of lies and setting the record straight.
Politics And Expertise
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Author : Zeynep Pamuk
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-11-26
Politics And Expertise written by Zeynep Pamuk and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-26 with Philosophy categories.
A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by scientists and other experts. Meanwhile, contemporary political life is increasingly characterized by problematic responses to expertise, with denials of science on the one hand and complaints about the ignorance of the citizenry on the other. Politics and Expertise offers a new model for the relationship between science and democracy, rooted in the ways in which scientific knowledge and the political context of its use are imperfect. Zeynep Pamuk starts from the fact that science is uncertain, incomplete, and contested, and shows how scientists’ judgments about what is significant and useful shape the agenda and framing of political decisions. The challenge, Pamuk argues, is to ensure that democracies can expose and contest the assumptions and omissions of scientists, instead of choosing between wholesale acceptance or rejection of expertise. To this end, she argues for institutions that support scientific dissent, proposes an adversarial “science court” to facilitate the public scrutiny of science, reimagines structures for funding scientific research, and provocatively suggests restricting research into dangerous new technologies. Through rigorous philosophical analysis and fascinating examples, Politics and Expertise moves the conversation beyond the dichotomy between technocracy and populism and develops a better answer for how to govern and use science democratically.
Science
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Author : John Michels (Journalist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Science categories.
Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
Theoretical And Mathematical Foundations Of Computer Science
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Author : Qihai Zhou
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Theoretical And Mathematical Foundations Of Computer Science written by Qihai Zhou and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, ICTMF 2011, held in Singapore in May 2011. The conference was held together with the Second International Conference on High Performance Networking, Computing, and Communication systems, ICHCC 2011, which proceedings are published in CCIS 163. The 84 revised selected papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The topics covered range from computational science, engineering and technology to digital signal processing, and computational biology to game theory, and other related topices.
Feminist Science
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Author : Conrad Riker
language : en
Publisher: Conrad Riker
Release Date : 101-01-01
Feminist Science written by Conrad Riker and has been published by Conrad Riker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 101-01-01 with Humor categories.
Are You Tired of Being Told What to Think? Do you feel like science has been hijacked by ideology? Are you frustrated by research that starts with a conclusion and works backward? Do you wonder why facts and logic are being replaced by feelings and dogma? This book is for you. - Discover how feminist science prioritizes politics over truth. - Learn why objectivity is under attack and what it means for you. - See how cherry-picked data and flawed studies are used to push an agenda. - Understand the real motives behind the war on masculinity. - Find out why the gender pay gap is a myth. - Explore the parallels between feminist science and Marxist ideology. - See how academic research has been corrupted by political correctness. - Learn how to spot pseudoscience and demand real evidence. If you want to reclaim rationality and restore integrity to science, then buy this book today.
Scientist Speaks Out A A Personal Perspective On Science Society And Change
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Author : Glenn T Seaborg
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1996-07-29
Scientist Speaks Out A A Personal Perspective On Science Society And Change written by Glenn T Seaborg and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-29 with Science categories.
In A Scientist Speaks Out — A Personal Perspective on Science, Society, and Change, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1951) Glenn T Seaborg shares some of his thoughts and reflections on his broad interests, from the formulation of national science policy to the promise of youth. During a distinguished career in science and public service that spanned more than 50 years, he published over 500 works and maintained a public speaking schedule that included about 700 speeches on a wide variety of topics. This volume is a collection of nearly forty of his more popular speeches and articles, directed at a mostly non-scientific and non-technical audience. Since this volume is a compendium of reprints, readers will be able to share some of Seaborg's thoughts, as he originally penned them.
Proceedings Of The 2023 4th International Conference On Management Science And Engineering Management Icmsem 2023
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Author : Suhaiza Hanim Binti Dato Mohamad Zailani
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-07
Proceedings Of The 2023 4th International Conference On Management Science And Engineering Management Icmsem 2023 written by Suhaiza Hanim Binti Dato Mohamad Zailani and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-07 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This is an open access book.Management science aims to study the dynamic study of human use of limited resources in management activities to achieve organizational goals: complex and innovative social behavior and its laws. And engineering management refers to the management of important and complex new products, equipment and devices in the process of development, manufacturing and production, and also includes the study and management of technological innovation, technological transformation, transformation, transformation, layout and strategy of industrial engineering technology development. The development or breakthrough of management theory is accompanied by the development and progress of science and technology, and the level of science and technology and the level of management theory in each historical period are mutually adaptive, and it can be said that the progress of science and technology plays an important role in promoting the development of management. At the same time, the rapid development and progress of science and technology give a strong injection to the development of engineering, and provide the possibility for engineering construction can use new technology, new equipment, new technology and new materials. Modern management is an important development direction of management science nowadays. And the use of modern management in engineering has an important role in saving social costs, ensuring project quality, and improving safety awareness and behavior. ICMSEM 2023 will focus on modern management, discuss about the benefits that modernization brings to engineering. ICMSEM 2023 aims to: Develop and advance management science through the study and application of certain issues. Open up new perspectives in the sharing of speakers and inspire the audience to new ways of managing in engineering. Create a forum for sharing, research and exchange at the international level, so that the participants can be informed of the latest research directions, results and contents of management science, which will inspire them to new ideas for research and practice.
In Defence Of Modernity
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Author : Efraim Podoksik
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2013-05-14
In Defence Of Modernity written by Efraim Podoksik and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Philosophy categories.
Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity. The main feature of Oakeshott's vision of modernity is seen here as radical plurality resulting from 'fragmentation' of experience and society. On the level of experience, modernity denies the existence of the hierarchical medieval scheme and argues that there exist independent ways of understanding our world, such as science and history, which cannot be reduced to each other. On the level of society, modernity finds expression in liberal doctrine, according to which society is an aggregate of individuals each pursuing his or her own choices. For Oakeshott, to be modern means not only to recognise this condition of radical plurality but also to learn to appreciate and enjoy it. Oakeshott did not think that it was possible to find a comprehensive philosophical justification for modernity, therefore the only way to preserve modern civilisation seemed to be an appeal to sentiment. As a consequence he was a passionate defender of liberal education as the best way to underwrite the 'conversation of mankind.'