Proof (eBook)

The Uncertain Science of Certainty

Adam Kucharski (Autor)

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2025
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-899-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK AND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'Insightful, absorbing and entertaining' TLS'Brilliant' ALEX BELLOS'Illuminating' DAILY MAIL'The case for better evidence in post-evidence times' FINANCIAL TIMES'Profound and utterly absorbing' CHRIS VAN TULLEKENHow far would you go in your search for certainty? And once you get there, how do you convince others?From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things - to ourselves and others - has never felt more urgent. But there is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific laws: when demonstrating that an experimental medical treatment works, persuading a jury of someone's guilt, or deciding whether to trust a new type of financial transaction, weighing up evidence is rarely simple. Bestselling author, statistician and epidemiologist Adam Kucharski ranges across science, politics, philosophy and economics to explore how truth emerges - and why it falters.

Autor

Adam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A mathematician by training, his work on global outbreaks has included Ebola, Zika and COVID-19, and he has produced real-time analysis for multiple governments and health agencies. He is a TED senior fellow and winner of the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture and the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. The bestselling author of The Rules of Contagion, his writing has appeared in the Observer, Financial Times, Wired and New Statesman.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2025
• Zusatzinfo: Small number of line drawings and halftones
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Ali Almossawi The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments • anti-vax • epidemiology • Eugenia Cheng Beyond Infinity • Fake News • Gareth Leng Rhodri Ivor Leng The Matter of Facts Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science • History of Science • Jordan Ellenberg How Not to Be Wrong The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life • matt parker humble pi • Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science • philosophy of science • Popular Mathematics • Popular science • post-truth • Steven Strogatz Infinite Powers • The Art of Statistics David Spiegelhalter • The Nature of Truth • The Rules of Contagion • vaccine hesitancy • vaccine resistance • Weaponized Lies Daniel Levitin
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-899-6 / 1782838996
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-899-9 / 9781782838999