00988    a2200181   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069040001700087041000800104050001500112100002800127245005100155260004300206300002400249520053300273BJBSDDR20250911152851.0ta250911s2014    enk           00| 0 eng d  a9781904456469  bengcBJBSDDR  aeng  bR255n 20141 aRavetz, Jerome, d1929-14aNo-Nonsense Guide to Science /cJerome Ravetz.  aOxford :bNew Internationalist,c2014.  a143 pages ;c19 cm.  aScience is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, we need to let go of old ideas and assumptions.
This No-Nonsense Guide to Science introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. We must accept uncertainty and ignorance in the field, as well as the need for citizens’ participation in the policies involving science.