Who's Winning the War Against Science?

There is an outcry among scientists that they are being attacked on multiple fronts by fake news, alternative facts, climate change denial, fossil fuel industries, shrinking government funding, postmodernism, and religion. Is this siege mentality realistic or paranoid? It's realistic. This arti...

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Autor principal: Peters, Ted 1941- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Routledge [2018]
En: Theology and science
Año: 2018, Volumen: 16, Número: 2, Páginas: 166-176
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AD Sociología de la religión
CD Cristianismo ; Ciencia 
Otras palabras clave:B Postmodernism
B Theology
B war on science
B Pope Francis
B alternative facts
B Religión
B Science
B Ecology
B Fake News
B climate change denial
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:There is an outcry among scientists that they are being attacked on multiple fronts by fake news, alternative facts, climate change denial, fossil fuel industries, shrinking government funding, postmodernism, and religion. Is this siege mentality realistic or paranoid? It's realistic. This article encourages theologians and other religious leaders to ally themselves with scientists in defense of evidence-based judgments in public policy-making.
ISSN:1474-6719
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2018.1455266