Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: scientific authority and the created controversy
- Part I Lessons from the Philosophy of Science
- Part II Biases, Arguments and Created Controversies
- 5 Inherent irrationality: cognitive biases and heuristics
- 6 Thinking more clearly: arguments, reasoning and informal fallacies
- 7 Created controversies and how to detect them
- Points to remember: Part II
- Part III Exposing Created Controversies
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
Points to remember: Part II
from Part II - Biases, Arguments and Created Controversies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: scientific authority and the created controversy
- Part I Lessons from the Philosophy of Science
- Part II Biases, Arguments and Created Controversies
- 5 Inherent irrationality: cognitive biases and heuristics
- 6 Thinking more clearly: arguments, reasoning and informal fallacies
- 7 Created controversies and how to detect them
- Points to remember: Part II
- Part III Exposing Created Controversies
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
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- Creating Scientific ControversiesUncertainty and Bias in Science and Society, pp. 170 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015