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  • TECHNICAL CONTROVERSIES OVER PUBLIC POLICY
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    TECHNICAL CONTROVERSIES OVER PUBLIC POLICY
    ALLAN MAZUR
    Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie decisions about public policy. Recent examples are the disputes about climate change, ...

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  • IMPLAUSIBLE BELIEFS
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    IMPLAUSIBLE BELIEFS
    ALLAN MAZUR
    Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs implausible and assessing the impact of such belief systems onpolitics and social policy i...

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  • ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY IN INDUSTRIAL NATIONS
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    ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY IN INDUSTRIAL NATIONS
    ALLAN MAZUR
    Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand the societal forces in which they operate. In this book, Allan Mazur, an engineer a...

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  • TRUE WARNINGS AND FALSE ALARMS
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    TRUE WARNINGS AND FALSE ALARMS
    ALLAN MAZUR
    Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable increase of leukemia. But new allegations continuously arise. Are manufactured chemi...

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