The Doomsday Lobby Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors /
From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Benn...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6685-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and Overview
- American Science Before the Bomb
- Dr. Bush Fathers a Foundation
- Oh SPUTNIK! How the Educationists Prospered from a Russian Satellite
- To Mars! (But Why?)
- The Chicken Littles of Big Science; Or, Here Come the Killer Asteroids!
- Conclusion: The Only Way to Keep the Sky from Falling Is...