Scientists as Prophets

Scientists as Prophets
Author: Lynda Walsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199857113

Download Scientists as Prophets Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.


Scientists as Prophets
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Lynda Walsh
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

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 reach
The Wizard and the Prophet
Language: en
Pages: 640
Authors: Charles C. Mann
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-23 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and Will
Scientists as Prophets
Language: en
Pages:
Authors:
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

In this work, 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
Scientists as Prophets
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Lynda Walsh
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-01 - Publisher: OUP USA

GET EBOOK

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 reach
The Wizard and the Prophet
Language: en
Pages: 642
Authors: Charles Mann
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and Will