The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience - Lee McIntyre Audiobook
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Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn’t settled science, that evolution is “only a theory”, and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians’ rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are superior. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls “the scientific attitude” - caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science.
McIntyre offers examples that illustrate both scientific success and failure. He describes the transformation of medicine from a practice based largely on hunches into a science based on evidence; considers scientific fraud; examines the positions of ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and “skeptics” who reject scientific findings; and argues that social science, no less than natural science, should embrace the scientific attitude.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 4.2/5
June 2nd, 2019
Cheers thanks.
June 2nd, 2019
Thanks a lot for this timely contribution for this age of fake news.
June 2nd, 2019
Unfortunately, the social sciences do appear to be disappearing down that rabbit-hole of doom.
June 2nd, 2019
Anyone who claims that climate change (especially the man-made causal factor) is settled science, essentially violates the very premise of his own book.
Man-made Climate change skepticism has been raised by such “scientists” to the level of Holocaust denial, and it was done so with flawed, politically-driven “science” - most likely the kind Mr. McIntyre espouses.
June 3rd, 2019
Are you guys suggesting Climate change as caused by man is fakery?
How hard can it be to understand that millions of years ago the world was hotter and that the CO2 levels were high. Over the years the CO2 was absorbed by trees and animals which in turn were locked under ground. We come along and dig it all up, burn it and release the CO2. Surprise, surprise the CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas and warms up the planet again….what dont you get or what am i missing?
June 4th, 2019
attitude?
Give me evidence, if not your attitude matters not.
Climate change “settled science”? Evolution NOT just a theory?
Sounds like all attitude and no evidence :-D
June 4th, 2019
chrisxiii
I don’t know if you are joking, but do you not believe in evolution?
If not, what do you believe in and why?
June 11th, 2019
Let us communally clutch our pearls and gasp at this wicked notion of a potentially non-monogamous female while we gleefully steal audiobooks off the internet.
June 12th, 2019
Shhhhhhugar! wrong tab. Sorry.
June 14th, 2019
Here is what I call the Latynina Challange (after the publicist Yulia Latynina that made the claim in her 2011 article “Climatocracy”)
Give me ONE peer reviewes article that SCIENTIFICALY dismisses the non-anthropogenic sources of the Climate Change.
To say, how do we know it is not the same stuff that ended the Ice Age? We are not at historical highest warming yet, the trylobites had it much warmer.
October 27th, 2022
Now we have as of the end of Oct 2022 a vaccine that is killing people at a seemingly unending rate. If you believed BigPharma “science” and took the vax you are doomed.
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