Debunk it! : how to stay sane in a world of misinformation
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/121/GRANT,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, MN : Zest Books, [2019]
©2019
©2019
EDITION
Fake news edition
DESCRIPTION
296 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781942186595, 9781541578562, 1541578562, 1942186592, 9781942186595
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Facing up to misinformation. This stuff is everywhere ; The damage that it does ; On weasel words ; Building your own bullshitometer -- Stalking the wild baloney. Noble monkeys: where we all came from ; The wonderful power of woo ; Bugs and bodies: mysteries of medicine ; Implacable foes of reason: the antivaxers ; No hoax: the truth about climate change ; That isn't exactly how it went: faking history ; Coprolite claims: faking archaeology ; All the news that's fit to take
Uses modern, ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and dismantle poor arguments
1240L