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A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.
When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientific facts become easy to deny? And what can we do about it? In The Workshop and the World, philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease answers these questions by describing the origins of our scientific infrastructure―the “workshopâ€â€•and the role of ten of the world’s greatest thinkers in shaping it. At a time when the Catholic Church assumed total authority, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and René Descartes were the first to articulate the worldly authority of science, while writers such as Mary Shelley and Auguste Comte told cautionary tales of divorcing science from the humanities. The provocative leaders and thinkers Kemal Atatürk and Hannah Arendt addressed the relationship between the scientific community and the public in in times of deep distrust.
As today’s politicians and government officials increasingly accuse scientists of dishonesty, conspiracy, and even hoaxes, engaged citizens can’t help but wonder how we got to this level of distrust and how we can emerge from it. This book tells dramatic stories of individuals who confronted fierce opposition―and sometimes risked their lives―in describing the proper authority of science, and it examines how ignorance and misuse of science constitute the preeminent threat to human life and culture. An essential, timely exploration of what it means to practice science for the common good as well as the danger of political action divorced from science, The Workshop and the World helps us understand both the origins of our current moment of great anti-science rhetoric and what we can do to help keep the modern world from falling apart.
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"This author sets out portraying Galileo as the voice of (pre-) enlightenment skepticism, holding forth against authority (the church) in matters scientific.
This author ends by deploring anyone who will not bow to the authority of the AGW academic-industrial complex by voicing any concerns about the causes, remedies, or self-beggaring of AGW alarmism.
There is no such thing as "settled science", it is an oxymoron. It tuns out, Galileo was wrong more than he was right in many things, but he was a skeptic of the "settled truth." Yet the author wishes to silence any skeptics of his "settled truth"."
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- This author sets out portraying Galileo as the voice of (pre-) enlightenment skepticism, holding forth against authority (the church) in matters scientific.
This author ends by deploring anyone who will not bow to the authority of the AGW academic-industrial complex by voicing any concerns about the causes, remedies, or self-beggaring of AGW alarmism.
There is no such thing as "settled science", it is an oxymoron. It tuns out, Galileo was wrong more than he was right in many things, but he was a skeptic of the "settled truth." Yet the author wishes to silence any skeptics of his "settled truth".
