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  title info:
    title: Challenges
  name:
    name part: Lang, Serge.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 828 pages 2 illustrations)
  abstract: This collection, based on several of Lang's "Files," deals with the area where science and academia meet the worlds of journalism and politics: social organization, government, and the roles that education and journalism play in shaping opinions leading to policy decisions. In discussing specific cases in which he became involved, Lang addresses general questions of standards: standards of journalism, standards of discourse, and standards of science. Recurring questions concern: - How people process information and how misinformation is spread and accepted - Inhibition of critical thinking and the role of education: teaching students to think clearly and independently -- or conditioning them to accept dominant modes of perception uncritically - How to make corrections, and how attempts at corrections are sometimes obstructed - The extent to which we submit to the authority of those higher up, and whether one can keep the higher ups accountable, possibly in the face of evasions, stonewalling, and intimidation - The competence of so-called experts - Our responsibility for what we say or write - The use of editorial and academic power to suppress or marginalize ideas, evidence, or data that do not fit the tenets of certain establishments By dealing with case studies and providing extensive documentation, Lang challenges some individuals and establishments, at the same time that he challenges us to reconsider the ways they exercise their.
  table of contents: Academia, Journalism, and Politics, A Case Study -- Strange Survey of US Profs -- An Open Letter to Shafarevich -- Questions of Scientific Responsibility -- Questions of Editorial Responsibility -- HIV and Aids: Material on the Gallo Case -- The Three Laws of Sociodynamics.
  note: by Serge Lang.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  classification: QA1-939
  classification: 510
  identifier: 9781461216384 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461216389 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780387948614
  identifier: 0387948619
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260420212644.6
    record identifier: in00003563513
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng