TY - BOOK AU - Prothero,Donald R. ED - Project Muse. TI - Reality check: how science deniers threaten our future SN - 9780253010360 AV - Q172.5.P77 P69 2013 U1 - 001.9 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Bloomington and Indianapolis PB - Indiana University Press KW - Science KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Pseudoscience KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reality check -- Science, our candle in the darkness -- Betrayers of the truth: selling out science -- Making the environment the enemy: acid rain, the ozone hole, and the demonization of Rachel Carson -- Hot enough for you? The heated debate over a warming planet -- Gimme that old time religion: creationism, intelligent design, and the denial of humanity's place in nature -- Jenny's body count: playing Russian roulette with our children -- Victims of modern witch doctors: AIDS denialism -- If it quacks like a quack: snake-oil con artists in an era of medical science -- What's your sign? the ancient pseudoscience of astrology -- Down the slope of Hubbert's curve: the end of cheap oil and natural resources -- Far from the madding crowd: human overpopulation and its consequences -- The rejection of reality: how the denial of science threatens us all UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253010360/ ER -