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The stickler's guide to science in the age of misinformation : the real science behind hacky headlines, crappy clickbait, and suspect sources / R. Philip Bouchard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021Description: 276 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643260426
  • 1643260421
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Contents:
The lungs of the planet -- No gravity in space -- Survival of the fittest -- The five senses -- High levels of radiation -- Killing germs -- Twenty-four hours a day -- The blueprint of life -- Superfoods and toxins -- Full of energy -- Left-brained and right-brained -- Global warming -- Epidemics and pandemics.
Summary: R. Philip Bouchard takes a closer look at 13 pervasive scientific untruths tackling a range of topics from gravity and radiation to global warming, pandemics and humorously shares the real science behind them. You'll learn why trees do not store carbon dioxide, why getting your genome sequenced tells you much less than you think it does, and why a day is not actually 24 hours.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 500 B752 Available 33111010780621
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda.



We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more dis information too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases that obscure or omit important facts. "Superfoods," "right- and left-brained" people, and "global warming" may be snappy and ear-catching but are they backed by scientific facts? Lifelong educator R. Philip Bouchard is a stickler for this kind of thing, and he is well-prepared to set the record straight.



The Stickler's Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation unpacks the many misuses of terms we see used every day, revealing how these popular "scientific" concepts fall short of real science. Find out why trees do not "store" carbon dioxide; a day is not actually 24 hours; DNA cannot provide a "blueprint" for a human being; and an absence of gravity is not the reason that astronauts float in space.

Includes bibliographic references (page 263) and index.

The lungs of the planet -- No gravity in space -- Survival of the fittest -- The five senses -- High levels of radiation -- Killing germs -- Twenty-four hours a day -- The blueprint of life -- Superfoods and toxins -- Full of energy -- Left-brained and right-brained -- Global warming -- Epidemics and pandemics.

R. Philip Bouchard takes a closer look at 13 pervasive scientific untruths tackling a range of topics from gravity and radiation to global warming, pandemics and humorously shares the real science behind them. You'll learn why trees do not store carbon dioxide, why getting your genome sequenced tells you much less than you think it does, and why a day is not actually 24 hours.

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