How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1419706896 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times. . Andrew C. Darryl Cunningham is a prolific cartoonist, photographer, and sculptor
A graphic milestone of investigative journalism! Also available by Darryl Cunningham, The Age of Selfishness Find teaching guides for How to Fake a Moon Landing and other titles at abramsbooks/resources. 2014 YALSA Great Graphic Novels list 10 Unforgettable Graphic Novels list by salon 2012 Best Book shortlist at the British Comics Awards (UK edition) Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Award-winning author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based, visual assessment of current thinking and research on eight different issues everybody’s arguing about. Cunningham’s distinctive illustrative style shows how information is manipulated by all sides; his easy-to-follow narratives allow readers to draw their own fact-based conclusions. Praise for How to Fake a Moon Landing: “Cartoonist Darryl Cunningham is a welcome voice, shedding some much needed light on the darker areas of science and cultur
Cartoon Style Detracts From Readability M. Deschane While the message is clear, the delivery method is, in my opinion, unnecessary. A clearly written narrative without the cartoons would have been far more readable.. User-Friendly Weapon Against Ignorance We face daily bombardment of contradictory "facts" coming at us from print, television, and online media. Much of this bombardment is manipulative in nature, urging us to buy a remedy, trust an industry, or elect a candidate. And science is usually cast as a bully, a fraud, or an instrument of persecution. And that is why we need "How to Fake a Moon Landing" and many more books like it.Writer/cartoonist Darryl Cunningham takes on eight topics in this book, including "The Moon Hoax," "Chiropractic," "The MMR Vaccination Scandal," "Fracking," and "Clim. Awesome introduction to science denialism. Wedding often whimsical images with no-nonsense text, "Moon Landing" is a friendly and convincing introduction to the most pervasive forms of science denialism in force today. There is a real and present danger when vaccination and anthropogenic global climate disruption are given the denialist treatment, and real stupidity in accepting homeopathy or denying the fact and theory of evolution. These important topics and others are given brief treatment, with just enough solid information to render further denial a much less comfortable proposition. My
edition of what in Britain is called Science Tales (to conform with Cunningham’s Psychiatric Tales, 2011) consists of lively, plain-language debunkings of seven cases of quack or fraudulent science and, in the last chapter, antiscientific bias in general. --Ray Olson . From Booklist The U.S. Besides stylized use of color—some chapters are all in similar tones (greens, blues), others in more contrasting shades (blue and red, orange and blue)—Cunningham uses plenty of tonally altered (but recognizable) photos to keep the uniformly six-panel pages looking good. The text, while never failing to point up the dangers of believing the seven, is economical as can be, which well suits Cunningham’s bare-bones, glorified stick-figure drawing style. The belief that the Apollo 11 moon expedition was a