Why It's OK to Trust Science

Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and other explosive questions—lodged by ideologues on the left and the right—and offers readers a well researched defense of science and a polemic addressed to its detractors.

Why It’s OK to Trust Science critically examines the recent history of critiques of science, including those in academia fro...