If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..."
You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more sinister, says Austin Ruse. We're actually living in the age of the low information voter, easily mislead by all-too-convincing false statistics and studies. In Fake Science, Ruse debunks so-called "facts" used to advance political causes one after the other, revealing how poorly they stand up to actual science.
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Chapter 1 Pollsters' Waterloo |
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Chapter 2 The Transgender Moment |
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Chapter 3 Not Born That Way |
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Chapter 4 Everything They Say about Abortion Is a Lie |
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Chapter 5 Never Mind the Herpes, Full Speed Ahead |
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Chapter 6 The Grand Experiment on the Children |
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Chapter 7 One Hundred Eighty-Two Pounds of French Fries |
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Chapter 8 Poverty Could Make You Rich |
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Chapter 9 Flaming Water, Flaming Lies |
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Chapter 10 Global Warming Is Real---and It's a Good Thing |
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Chapter 11 Life on an Empty Planet |
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Chapter 12 Back Off, Man, I'm a Scientist |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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Austin Ruse is president of the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam), a New York and Washington, D.C.-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He was a longtime contributor to Breitbart and writes a bi-weekly column for Crisis Magazine.
