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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Description: What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it something more?InĀ The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and PseudoscienceĀ (MIT Press, 2019), Lee McIntyre addresses recent attacks on science in areas such as climate change, vaccination, and even belief that the world is flat by explaining why science is a culture built around a āscientific attitudeā that embraces evidence and a willingness to change beliefs based on where evidence leads.What does it mean for science education if the...