A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific by David J. Helfand

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By David J. Helfand

We all swim in a sea of massive facts, dangerously at risk of the unscientific pondering that now replaces the severe schools we used to depend upon. We search basic factors the place complexity is needed. yet as we pastime to unravel international difficulties of strength, foodstuff, and water shortages, a planetary biodiversity situation, and rising threats to our public healthiness, the advance of clinical behavior of brain turns into much more crucial for our survival. We worry numbers and like neat and easy strategies to advanced difficulties, yet medical reasoning performs a important function in fighting incorrect information and is one among our greatest instruments for assembly the impending crises of our century. From confronting our worry of quantitative reasoning and demystifying graphs to elucidating the foremost recommendations of likelihood and information research and using certain language and good judgment, this booklet offers an important set of apps for the frontal cortex whereas making technology either available and interesting. Who says it should be boring to profit to imagine like a scientist? Who says just a couple of can do it? no longer David Helfand, considered one of our nation’s prime astronomers and technology educators. Helfand has taught clinical behavior of brain to generations of Columbia college undergraduates, the place he maintains to salary a provocative and invaluable conflict opposed to sloppy considering and the encroachment of misinformation.

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