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Tainted - How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,644
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Tainted - How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science (Hardcover): Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Tainted - How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science (Hardcover)

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Series: Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series

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Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their scientific findings often can be deeply flawed.
To uncover and assess these scientific flaws, award-winning biologist and philosopher of science Kristin Shrader-Frechette uses the analytical tools of classic philosophy of science. She identifies and evaluates the concepts, data, inferences, methods, models, and conclusions of science tainted by the influence of special interests. As a result, she challenges accepted scientific findings regarding risks such as chemical toxins and carcinogens, ionizing radiation, pesticides, hazardous-waste disposal, development of environmentally sensitive lands, threats to endangered species, and less-protective standards for workplace-pollution exposure. In so doing, she dissects the science on which many contemporary scientific controversies turn. Demonstrating and advocating "liberation science," she shows how practical, logical, methodological, and ethical evaluations of science can both improve its quality and credibility -- and protect people from harm caused by flawed science, such as underestimates of cancers caused by bovine growth hormones, cell phones, fracking, or high-voltage wires.
This book is both an in-depth look at the unreliable scientific findings at the root of contemporary debates in biochemistry, ecology, economics, hydrogeology, physics, and zoology -- and a call to action for scientists, philosophers of science, and all citizens.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
Release date: November 2014
First published: October 2014
Authors: Kristin Shrader-Frechette (O'Neill Family Professor)
Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-939641-2
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 0-19-939641-8
Barcode: 9780199396412

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