Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.

The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected officials attack scientific findings that conflict with their political agendas. The next time you hear a politician say, "Well, I’m not a scientist, but…," you’ll be ready.

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• The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
• Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
• Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
• The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
• The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
• Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
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