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  • How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
  • Written by: Michael Specter
  • Narrated by: Richard Poe
  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Written by: Michael Specter
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New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council’s Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
©2009 Michael Specter (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
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Very American

The title of this book should have been "American Denialism". There was very little reference to the phenomenon anywhere outside the borders of the USA. What about the rest of the world? Or even just the Western World? Even if one reads this as an exclusively American book, there is very little critical analysis of why denialialism is rampant and deeply embedded in American culture. Could there be a problem in the American educational system? Have Americans always been denialists? What are its roots? Is it encouraged by Hollywood, Madison Avenue or political leaders? And why are Americans more prone to denialism than people in countries like Canada?

If this book had dug deeper into the roots of American denialism, there would have at least been some insights one could apply to other cultures.

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