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US: University Of Chicago Press, Date: 2010. Paperback. Good. Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Dar win's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-establish ed findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link can been consistently disprove d. And about 40 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warm ing is exaggerated, despite near consensus in the scientific community that manmade climate change is real. Why do people believe bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscie ntific beliefs and practices? Noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to s eparate the fact from the fantasy in this entertaining exploration of the n ature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and-borrowing a famous phrase from philosopher Jeremy Bentham-the nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on a number of controversial topics, Pigliucci cuts through th e ambiguity surrounding science to look more closely at how science is cond ucted, how it is disseminated, how it is interpreted, and what it means to our society. The result is in many ways a "taxonomy of bunk" that explores the intersection of science and culture at large. No one-not the public intellectuals in the culture wars between defenders and detractors of science nor the believers of pseudoscience themselves-is spared Pigliucci's incisive analysis. In the end, Nonsense on Stilts ...

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