Hoodwinking the Nation

Autorentext
Julian Simon

Klappentext
An exploration of how and why false bad news is produced, stating that government reports are often the basis for environmental news scams and doomsday analyses. It examines the intellectual basis of concepts that lead to scares, and considers whether institutional structures could be changed.

Zusammenfassung
Most people in the United States believe that our environment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth is a burden and a threat

Inhalt
Introduction; 1: What Do Americans Wrongly Believe about Environment, Resources, and Population?; 2: The Vanishing Farmland Scam; 3: The Concepts That Lead to Scares about Resources and Population Growth; 4: Why Does the Public Not Hear Sound Environmental Thinkers?; 5: Why Are So Many Biologists Alarmed?; 6: The Old-Time Journalistic Methods Don't Work Here; 7: Damn Lies, Statistics, and Doomsday; 8: Personal Knowledge versus Media-Shaped Opinions; 9: How Psychology Affects the Evaluation of Trends; 10: Why Do We Hear Prophecies of Doom from Every Side?; Conclusion

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