When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations

by Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S Steel, Brent S. Steel

Book Overview

This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus--and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well as conservatives.

In 2010, an outbreak of whooping cough in California infected more than 8,000 people, resulting in the hospitalization of more than 800...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440849838
• ISBN13: 9781440849831
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years