{"product_id":"science-in-an-age-of-unreason-9781684512522","title":"Science in an Age of Unreason","description":"\u003cb\u003eScience is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScience is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers--especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to 'health and safety'--are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. These foregone conclusions may be comforting, but each capitulation to modernity's whims threatens the integrity of scientific inquiry. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eScience in an Age of Unreason\u003c\/i\u003e, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today's scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Staddon answers pressing questions, including: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e Is science, especially the science of evolution, a religion? Can ethics be derived from science at all? How sound is social science, particularly surrounding today's most controversial topics? How can passions be separated from facts? \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Informed by decades of expertise, \u003ci\u003eScience in an Age of Unreason\u003c\/i\u003e is a clarion call to rebirth academia as a beacon of reason and truth in a society demanding its unconditional submission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regnery Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684512522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"John Staddon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42077519675573,"sku":"9781684512522","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f45f276-052f-4545-b4d7-8be3ff4da210.jpg?v=1650956790","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/science-in-an-age-of-unreason-9781684512522","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}