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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1. VerfasserIn: Peters, Ted 1941- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge [2018]
In: Theology and science
Jahr: 2018, Band: 16, Heft: 2, Seiten: 166-176
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
CF Christentum und Wissenschaft
weitere Schlagwörter:B Postmodernism
B Theology
B war on science
B Pope Francis
B alternative facts
B Science
B Religion
B Ecology
B Fake News
B climate change denial
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Zusammenfassung: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
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2018.1455266