Trusting science : why we need to reconsider school science teaching /
"Certain scientific fields have long been battlegrounds of controversy, echoing a deep-seated public distrust towards science. This distrust is especially pronounced in areas of policy science, that is, science that informs policy decisions such as vaccination programs. This book explores the r...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- In science we trust?
- Vaccination and its discontents
- "After they give us the blood tests...they said we had bad blood" : scientists' discrimination, injustice, and... conspiracies
- "The Compulsory Vaccination Act...invades...the liberty of the subject, and the sanctity of home" : individual liberties and bodily autonomy
- "The practice of medicine is based on calculated risk" : why uncertainty is inherent in science
- "The government feels their convulsions might have happened anyway. Dr. Murphy disagrees..." : conflicting "expert" claims
- "The medical profession was wrong, in some cases shamefully so" : flawed science and unreliable review procedures
- "There are no studies that disprove it either" : what constitutes evidence in science
- "The government received our petition and immediately conceded. A vaccine injury had caused permanent brain damage" : political decisions and their implications
- "Bring back our #ChildhoodDiseases they keep you healthy fight cancer" : the lack of directly observable evidence.