- Religion and science, Belief and doubt, Common fallacies, Credulity
From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, these demonstrably untrue descriptions of the world are forms of 'counterknowledge'. Here, the author demonstrates, the counterknowledge industry has the potential to create new political, social and economic disasters.
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Spare, classical in form, cool and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Damian Thompson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 162
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, Atlantic, Norton
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393067699
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