Denying to the Grave : Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

[摘要] By Sara E. Gorman, Jack M. Gorman, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. 312 pp. $29.95.social sciencescience denialbiasmisinformationDenying to the Grave is an exploration of science denial that focuses on health, medicine, and the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying how people make decisions that can affect their health. This book, written by public health specialist Sara Gorman and her psychiatrist father Jack Gorman, uses evidence from psychological research to describe the many factors that lead people to reject scientific data. The book also proposes seven guiding principles and six solutions to help sway people in the direction of accepting scientific evidence and rejecting the allure of “junk” science.

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] social science;science denial;bias;misinformation