Bad advice : or why celebrities, politicians, and activists aren't your best source of health information /
Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: On being naïve
- What science is
- and what it isn't
- White mice and windowless rooms
- An alibi for ignorance
- Feeding the beast
- To debate or not to debate
- Make 'em laugh
- Science goes to the movies
- The Emperor's new clothes
- Judgment day
- The nuclear option
- Pharma shill
- A ray of hope
- Epilogue: The end of the tour.