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Wherever the people are well informed, Thomas Jefferson wrote, they
can be trusted with their own government. But what happens when
they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate change
to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to
defense--we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of
scientific progress and a simultaneous expansion of danger. At the
very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective
knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part
war on science: the identity politics war on science, the
ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science. The
result is an unprecedented erosion of thought in Western
democracies as voters, policymakers, and justices actively ignore
the evidence from science, leaving major policy decisions to be
based more on the demands of the most strident voices. Shawn Otto's
compelling new book investigates the historical, social,
philosophical, political, and emotional reasons why evidence-based
politics are in decline and authoritarian politics are once again
on the rise on both left and right, and provides some compelling
solutions to bring us to our collective senses, before it's too
late.
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