Denialism – How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. His most recent book, “Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives,” was published on October 29, 2009. Specter writes often about science, technology, and public health. Since joining the magazine, he has written several articles about the global AIDS epidemic, as well as about avian influenza, malaria, and the world’s diminishing freshwater resources, synthetic biology and the debate over the meaning of our carbon footprint.

Read Jane Maslin’s “Firing Bullets of Data at Cozy Anti-Science” article on Michael Specter in the New York Times.

Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:30pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
Free!