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Annie Lighthart
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There is ample evidence that it is difficult for the general public
to understand and internalize scientific facts. Disputes over such
facts are often amplified amid political controversies. As we've
seen with climate change and even COVID-19, politicians rely on the
perceptions of their constituents when making decisions that impact
public policy. So, how do we make sure that what the public
understands is accurate? In this book, Steven L. Goldman traces the
public's suspicion of scientific knowledge claims to a broad
misunderstanding, reinforced by scientists themselves, of what it
is that scientists know, how they know it, and how to act on the
basis of it. In sixteen chapters, Goldman takes readers through the
history of scientific knowledge from Plato and Aristotle, through
the birth of modern science and its maturation, into a powerful
force for social change to the present day. He explains how
scientists have wrestled with their own understanding of what it is
that they know, that theories evolve, and why the public
misunderstands the reliability of scientific knowledge claims. With
many examples drawn from the history of philosophy and science, the
chapters illustrate an ongoing debate over how we know what we say
we know and the relationship between knowledge and reality. Goldman
covers a rich selection of ideas from the founders of modern
science and John Locke's response to Newton's theories to Thomas
Kuhn's re-interpretation of scientific knowledge and the Science
Wars that followed it. Goldman relates these historical disputes to
current issues, underlining the important role scientists play in
explaining their own research to nonscientists and the effort
nonscientists must make to incorporate science into public
policies. A narrative exploration of scientific knowledge, Science
Wars engages with the arguments of both sides by providing
thoughtful scientific, philosophical, and historical discussions on
every page.
Scholars have long believed that the first civilization on Earth
emerged in Sumer some 6,000 years ago. However, as Michael
Tellinger reveals, the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their
knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern
tip of Africa and began with the arrival of the Anunnaki more than
200,000 years ago. Sent to Earth in search of life-saving gold,
these ancient Anunnaki astronauts from the planet Nibiru created
the first humans as a slave race to mine gold--thus beginning our
global traditions of gold obsession, slavery, and god as dominating
master. Revealing new archaeological and genetic evidence in
support of Zecharia Sitchin's revolutionary work with pre-biblical
clay tablets, Tellinger shows how the Anunnaki created us using
pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental
capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA--which
explains why less than 3 percent of our DNA is active. He
identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in
South Africa, complete with thousands of mines, as the city of
Anunnaki leader Enki and explains their lost technologies that used
the power of sound as a source of energy. Matching key mythologies
of the world's religions to the Sumerian clay tablet stories on
which they are based, he details the actual events behind these
tales of direct physical interactions with "god," concluding with
the epic flood--a perennial theme of ancient myth--that wiped out
the Anunnaki mining operations. Tellinger shows that, as humanity
awakens to the truth about our origins, we can overcome our
programmed animalistic and slave-like nature, tap in to our dormant
Anunnaki DNA, and realize the longevity and intelligence of our
creators as well as learn the difference between the gods of myth
and the true loving God of our universe.
On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess - Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich -
embarked on his astonishing flight from Augsburg to Scotland. At
dusk the same day, he parachuted on to a Scottish moor and was
taken into custody. His arrival provoked widespread curiosity and
speculation, which has continued to this day. Why did Hess fly to
Scotland? Had Hitler authorized him to attempt to negotiate peace?
Was British Intelligence involved? What was his state of mind at
the time? Drawing on a variety of reliable archive and eyewitness
sources in Britain, Germany and the USA, authors Roy Conyers Nesbit
and Georges van Acker have written what must be the most objective
assessment of the Hess' story yet to be published. Their compelling
narrative not only dispels many of the extraordinary conspiracy
theories, but also uncovers some intriguing new facts.
The year 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terror
attacks of September 11, 2001, those history-changing events that
have come to be known simply as 9/11. In "The Terror Conspiracy
Revisited," the world's leading conspiracy writer updates his
authoritative dissection of the official story of 9/11. This
revised edition is packed with explosive new material including:
The revelations of former New Jersey attorney General John Farmer,
who served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission: "At some level
of the government, at some point in time. . .there was an agreement
not to tell the truth about what happened."Commission co-chairman
Thomas Kean's suspicions of deceit: "We to this day don't know why
NORAD told us what they told us. It was just so far from the
truth."The European scientists' determination that there was
nano-thermite in the World Trade Center debris, a high explosive
generally available only through the US military.Pilots For 9/11
Truth's findings that Flight 77's flight deck door was never opened
during flight, and their conclusion that hijackers could not have
accessed the cockpit.
What is the truth? It is quite simply that the truth has not yet
been presented to the American public. Jim Marrs busts wide open
whatever credibility the US government's version of 9/11 ever had
and leaves the reader with some unsavory but indisputable
conclusions.
Jim Marrs is the "New York Times" best-selling author of "Rule
By Secrecy," "The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy: The Plot That Killed
Kennedy," and "Above Top Secret."
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In
this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the
component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in
his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and
explains why promises made under force ought not to be kept. GREAT
IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They
have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They
have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
In 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft on
uninhabited Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The boys began
to dig, and what they uncovered started the world's greatest and
strangest treasure hunt but nobody knows what the treasure is. Two
hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and
engineering skills have failed to retrieve what is concealed
there.
Theories of what the treasure could be include Captain Kidd's
bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left by the French or
British military engineers, priceless ancient manuscripts, the body
of an Arif or other religious refugee leader, or the lost treasure
of the Templars. The Oak Island curse prophesies that the treasure
will not be found until seven men are dead and the last oak has
fallen. That last oak has already gone, and six treasure hunters
have been killed.
After years of research, the authors have finally solved the
sinister riddle of Oak Island, but their answer is challenging,
controversial, and disturbing. Something beyond price still lies
waiting in the labyrinth.
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