A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019WQU84A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition (February 2, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 19692 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 346 pages

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019WQU84A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition (February 2, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 19692 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 346 pages

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Customers find the book super-duper, easy to read and comprehend, and loaded with provocative and useful thoughts and ideas. They also say the content is slow at first but most of it is pretty easy to understand.

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This Post Has 11 Comments

  1. Super-duper book!
    An extraordinarily good book. How can I rave enough? If you want clarity of expression, s direct encounter with how a sensitive, world-class scientist addresses his world (the same world as yours), readability, wit, good judgment, sensitivity and eye-opening perspectives on poorly-understood phenomena that all of us face, every day, then this book is for you. I loved every word. Bravo, Helfand!! For example, his presentation of the scientifically demonstrated facts about anthropogenic carbon dioxide and its consequences is the best and most succinct I have erver seen. But…………….he expresses no opinion about whether man-made CO2 causes “global warming.” He wants ME to weigh the evidence, think about it and reach my own judgment. Yes.

  2. Tired of Fake News, alternative facts and government waste?
    Then this book is for you. It’s less about negative stories peddled by the media as journalism and more about how to examine those stories, what ignorant politicians claim, and anti-science pushers who spout diatribe about “mommy sense” and other nonsense. The book spends some time on that, but doesn’t waste space rehashing what’s wrong with the media, homeopathy, astrology, and a few other types of pseudoscience.I enjoyed this book. Though I might have approached things topic differently, it’s just a matter of style and not substance. It certainly is good information and provides a set of tools for the skeptically minded. I am able to add a few tools to my arsenal to defend myself against the stuff we all “just know.” In a few areas it gets a little slow, but most of it was pretty easy to read and comprehend. In this age of fake news, which actually started when news started, it’s good to arm ourselves with the means necessary to understand what is really going, and to push back against public policies foisted upon us by moronic politicians and government actions demanded by the emotionally driven people who push our government to waste millions of tax payers’ dollars, which is pointed out in the book.

  3. This was a pretty good book overall
    This was a pretty good book overall. It lays out many different examples and arguments about why misinformation is spread so easily and ways in which one can combat it. Ultimately I would have liked for a deeper understanding of the author’s personal views on ways in which the education system could be tailored to help people recognize misinformation. This would be a great book for a college freshman seminar to encourage students to approach their studies with skepticism so that they can truly understand the lectures and information presented to them throughout their studies.

  4. Loaded with provocative and useful thoughts and ideas
    Humorous and intellectual. Not written with a heavy hand or abstruse language. Loaded with provocative and useful thoughts and ideas.To those who are concerned about our age of false news and overwhelmed by information that floods us each day, this book will put you at ease.

  5. left me wishing for a clearer and more forceful articulation of the book’s main points
    This is an interesting and (for the most part) readable book. Unfortunately, it won’t accomplish its mission of fostering “scientific habits of mind” in those who don’t have them. The reasons for this are mostly related to clarity, and to wordiness. His discussions of the important topics of probability and statistics are cluttered with too much difficult-appearing math and discussion thereof for anyone not already familiar with the topics. His extended discourse on the difference between correlation and causation — a very important distinction — isn’t as clear as it should be (unless, again, you already understand the point), and misses the opportunity to hammer the concepts home in a simple, direct way. Still, his discussion of how the connection between vaccination and autism was debunked is interesting and valuable. His long discussion, with data and examples, on climate change and climate change denial also goes a long way toward discrediting the deniers, while also shedding light on a couple of myths too commonly accepted by those who do accept the fact of human-caused climate change. I’d read the book again, and would recommend it to anyone interested in the topics…but it left me wishing for a clearer and more forceful articulation of the book’s main points.

  6. just one of those superior brain adjustment tools that get & keep me ahead …
    just one of those superior brain adjustment tools that get & keep me ahead of u’s. Heavy duty, real, playfullable, krunchy, useful. Learn & see how abvanced math is used. My learning style requires rereading to absorb ^ math. Got a textbook dose of math at 10% the cost & enjoy the lesson from an expert teacher – at my leisure!

  7. Excellent
    David Helfand has written a very accessible book on a subject of which everyone should be aware. Read it, you will be glad you did!

  8. Thought Provoking
    I really enjoyed this book when I finally got into it after many false starts. I am an ordained Baptist minister who is retired. While my denomination is anti science I am not. I am always trying to improve the quality of my decision making skills and this book provides a view of science that can be beneficial for a non scientist like myself.

  9. Que j’aime ce livre! Il est accéssible a tout un chacun et nous aide a comprendre comment la manipulation est d’actualité au quotidien, ” ne réféchissez pas nous nous en occupons a votre place”

  10. Got to the bit on numbers and Helfand says he searched Google using term “meaning of number” (p. 46) and was surprised to get first five results related to the bible, symbolism, etc. Immediately after he says he will stick with his “less exciting definition” (p. 47). Well, that’s the point, if you search Google with the term “number definition” then you get in big text at top of first page the definition “an arithmetical value, expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations.” And this is followed by definitions of number in the same vein – you’d have to go down a lot of pages to get to the “Spiritual Meaning of Numbers”. So, it seems wrong to search for “meaning” when you mean “definition”.

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