Galileo's Revenge

Galileo's Revenge
Author: Peter W. Huber
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1993-03-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780465026241

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used—and the courts have accepted—spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

Galileo's Revenge

Galileo's Revenge
Author: Peter W. Huber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1991-10-17
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Mystics." Galileo's Revenge documents this peculiarly American phenomenon, showing how ancient rules of evidence do not discriminate between serious science and junk.

Orwell's Revenge

Orwell's Revenge
Author: Peter Huber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1501127705

In alternating chapters of fiction and nonfiction, Huber turns the computer against Orwell's words, reimagining Orwell's 1984 from the computer's point of view, interpolating Huger's own explanations and arguments.

The Bottomless Well

The Bottomless Well
Author: Peter W Huber
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007-03-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465003915

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The Bottomless Well , Huber and Mills debunk the myths and show how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why greater efficiency will never lead to energy conservation; and why the energy supply is infinite-it's quality of energy that's scarce and expensive. The Bottomless Well will also revolutionize our thinking about the automotive industry (gas prices don't matter and the hybrid engine is irrelevant), coal and uranium, the much-maligned power grid (it's the worst system we could have except for all the others), what energy supplies mean for jobs and GDP, and many other hotly debated subjects.

Hard Green

Hard Green
Author: Peter W Huber
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786723432

This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green. This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Hard Green takes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover TAR. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.

Aristotle's Revenge

Aristotle's Revenge
Author: Edward Feser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783868382006

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are: The metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method. The status of scientific realism The metaphysics of space and time. The metaphysics of quantum mechanics. Reductionism in chemistry and biology. The metaphysics of evolution. Neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633

The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633
Author: Thomas F. Mayer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442605197

English translations of primary documents.

Auto Insurance Reform

Auto Insurance Reform
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: