by Dick Taverne · Oxford University Press, USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199205622
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«The March of Unreason» is Dick Taverne's essay on science and society, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Taverne analyses the advance of irrationality in Western society and argues that public opinion increasingly rejects factual evidence. He reviews cases such as GMOs, organic farming, the MMR vaccine, environmentalism, the precautionary principle and anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements, and maintains that this rejection generates a culture of suspicion and dogmatism.
The full title includes the subtitle «Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism»; originally published in 2005.
Aimed at readers interested in the relationship between science, politics and public debate.
