Author: Tim Ozman
Publisher:
ISBN: 0359193404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Are you tired of arguing with Ball-Earthers and getting nowhere? Are you unable to get them to see through the truth's protective layers? The Flat Earth is a hard sell because the Ball-Earthers have never considered an alternative and all of the propaganda supports what they already believe. They have a vested interest in maintaining their own mental stability so it's not easy getting them to willingly take on the cognitive dissonance required to wrap their mind around the biggest lie ever told. The Flat Earth Activist is divided into two parts: Part One focuses on debate tactics and Part Two focuses upon the task of deconstructing the Globe Paradigm and advancing a Flat Earth Reformation. An Infinite Plane Society Publication
The FLAT EARTH ACTIVIST 3rd Edition
Author: Tim Ozman
Publisher:
ISBN: 0359193404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Are you tired of arguing with Ball-Earthers and getting nowhere? Are you unable to get them to see through the truth's protective layers? The Flat Earth is a hard sell because the Ball-Earthers have never considered an alternative and all of the propaganda supports what they already believe. They have a vested interest in maintaining their own mental stability so it's not easy getting them to willingly take on the cognitive dissonance required to wrap their mind around the biggest lie ever told. The Flat Earth Activist is divided into two parts: Part One focuses on debate tactics and Part Two focuses upon the task of deconstructing the Globe Paradigm and advancing a Flat Earth Reformation. An Infinite Plane Society Publication
Publisher:
ISBN: 0359193404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Are you tired of arguing with Ball-Earthers and getting nowhere? Are you unable to get them to see through the truth's protective layers? The Flat Earth is a hard sell because the Ball-Earthers have never considered an alternative and all of the propaganda supports what they already believe. They have a vested interest in maintaining their own mental stability so it's not easy getting them to willingly take on the cognitive dissonance required to wrap their mind around the biggest lie ever told. The Flat Earth Activist is divided into two parts: Part One focuses on debate tactics and Part Two focuses upon the task of deconstructing the Globe Paradigm and advancing a Flat Earth Reformation. An Infinite Plane Society Publication
How to Talk to a Science Denier
Author: Lee McIntyre
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262545055
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. "Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed--they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we convince such people otherwise? How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don't believe in facts? In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill. Drawing on his own experience--including a visit to a Flat Earth convention--as well as academic research, McIntyre outlines the common themes of science denialism, present in misinformation campaigns ranging from tobacco companies' denial in the 1950s that smoking causes lung cancer to today's anti-vaxxers. He describes attempts to use his persuasive powers as a philosopher to convert Flat Earthers; surprising discussions with coal miners; and conversations with a scientist friend about genetically modified organisms in food. McIntyre offers tools and techniques for communicating the truth and values of science, emphasizing that the most important way to reach science deniers is to talk to them calmly and respectfully--to put ourselves out there, and meet them face to face.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262545055
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. "Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed--they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we convince such people otherwise? How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don't believe in facts? In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill. Drawing on his own experience--including a visit to a Flat Earth convention--as well as academic research, McIntyre outlines the common themes of science denialism, present in misinformation campaigns ranging from tobacco companies' denial in the 1950s that smoking causes lung cancer to today's anti-vaxxers. He describes attempts to use his persuasive powers as a philosopher to convert Flat Earthers; surprising discussions with coal miners; and conversations with a scientist friend about genetically modified organisms in food. McIntyre offers tools and techniques for communicating the truth and values of science, emphasizing that the most important way to reach science deniers is to talk to them calmly and respectfully--to put ourselves out there, and meet them face to face.
The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374292782
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374292782
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
Climate Propagandas
Author: Jonas Staal
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262549824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
How climate propaganda narratives shape our (mis)understanding of the world, and how to propagate a future of repair and regeneration instead. In Climate Propagandas, Jonas Staal reveals the propaganda narratives—and the divergent realities they evoke—that shape the climate crisis in the public imaginary. It is often said that the climate crisis is a planetary one, but the devastating impact of climate crisis is distributed unequally and its related ideological positions are as vast as they are irreconcilable. A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction. With an artist’s eye and an activist’s sense of urgency, Staal explores how these stories are told and visualized through popular film and television, internet culture, climate fiction, art, architecture, and industrial design. If life-threatening propaganda narratives have conjured our present climate catastrophe, Staal suggests, then surely stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that don’t follow the path of mass extinction, but rather seek repair and regeneration of a world in crisis.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262549824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
How climate propaganda narratives shape our (mis)understanding of the world, and how to propagate a future of repair and regeneration instead. In Climate Propagandas, Jonas Staal reveals the propaganda narratives—and the divergent realities they evoke—that shape the climate crisis in the public imaginary. It is often said that the climate crisis is a planetary one, but the devastating impact of climate crisis is distributed unequally and its related ideological positions are as vast as they are irreconcilable. A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction. With an artist’s eye and an activist’s sense of urgency, Staal explores how these stories are told and visualized through popular film and television, internet culture, climate fiction, art, architecture, and industrial design. If life-threatening propaganda narratives have conjured our present climate catastrophe, Staal suggests, then surely stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that don’t follow the path of mass extinction, but rather seek repair and regeneration of a world in crisis.
COVID-19 The Conspiracy Theories
Author: David Gardner
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 1789466237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Investigative journalist David Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories - some of them plausible, some driven by an agenda, and some plainly mad - he answers the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before. When COVID-19 struck early in 2020, first in China and inexorably through the rest of the world, it quickly became the subject of the most virulent outbreak of conspiracy theories we have ever seen. The pandemic quickly became an infodemic. The President of the United States championed bleach as a cure, the Chinese government blamed the Americans, and the American government blamed the Chinese - a Cold War over a cold virus. David Icke said that COVID does not exist. People blamed 5G phone networks, genetically modified crops, Bill Gates, Corona beer, aliens, bats and pangolins . . . Yet these theorists are not all the obsessive cultists and paranoid mavericks with whom the conspiracy-theory label is often associated. They are your parents, your next-door neighbour, your boss at work. The question marks over the origins of COVID-19, the dangers of the virus. The world has been changed for ever by the events of the past two years. It is crucial that history offers an accurate account of what happened. This book will play a key role in revealing what - and what not - to believe.
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 1789466237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Investigative journalist David Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories - some of them plausible, some driven by an agenda, and some plainly mad - he answers the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before. When COVID-19 struck early in 2020, first in China and inexorably through the rest of the world, it quickly became the subject of the most virulent outbreak of conspiracy theories we have ever seen. The pandemic quickly became an infodemic. The President of the United States championed bleach as a cure, the Chinese government blamed the Americans, and the American government blamed the Chinese - a Cold War over a cold virus. David Icke said that COVID does not exist. People blamed 5G phone networks, genetically modified crops, Bill Gates, Corona beer, aliens, bats and pangolins . . . Yet these theorists are not all the obsessive cultists and paranoid mavericks with whom the conspiracy-theory label is often associated. They are your parents, your next-door neighbour, your boss at work. The question marks over the origins of COVID-19, the dangers of the virus. The world has been changed for ever by the events of the past two years. It is crucial that history offers an accurate account of what happened. This book will play a key role in revealing what - and what not - to believe.
Off the Edge
Author: Kelly Weill
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643750682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643750682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist
Author: Alan H. McGowan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527566897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book chronicles the life and political action of Franz Boas, a ground-breaking anthropologist whose work denied the notion of racial superiority and introduced the notion of cultural relativity. In addition, he was a fierce pacifist who opposed the entry of the United States into World War I, and organized a powerful organization protecting the free speech of those accused of left-wing sympathies. He was among the first to recognize the strength of a scientist speaking out on political issues. The book will appeal to those interested in issues of race relations and free speech, and those interested in the role of science and scientists in the larger society.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527566897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book chronicles the life and political action of Franz Boas, a ground-breaking anthropologist whose work denied the notion of racial superiority and introduced the notion of cultural relativity. In addition, he was a fierce pacifist who opposed the entry of the United States into World War I, and organized a powerful organization protecting the free speech of those accused of left-wing sympathies. He was among the first to recognize the strength of a scientist speaking out on political issues. The book will appeal to those interested in issues of race relations and free speech, and those interested in the role of science and scientists in the larger society.
The End of the World is Flat
Author: Simon Edge
Publisher: Eye & Lightning Books
ISBN: 1785632418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
'I laughed so hard I nearly fell in my cauldron. A masterpiece' JULIE BINDEL 'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEEN Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat. Using the dark arts of social media at his new master's behest, Mel's ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style 'globularism' is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy. Can Mel and her fellow heretics – vilified as 'True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) – thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century? Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.
Publisher: Eye & Lightning Books
ISBN: 1785632418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
'I laughed so hard I nearly fell in my cauldron. A masterpiece' JULIE BINDEL 'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEEN Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat. Using the dark arts of social media at his new master's behest, Mel's ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style 'globularism' is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy. Can Mel and her fellow heretics – vilified as 'True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) – thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century? Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.
Flat Earth Clues
Author: Mark Sargent
Publisher: Booglez Limited
ISBN: 1916611036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Is the Flat Earth theory that has been burning through the internet now ushering in the End of the World? Take a look at how we got here with Mark Sargent, star of the Netflix documentary "Behind the Curve" and creator of "Flat Earth Clues". Go behind the scenes in tell-all chapters covering many of the major players in the Flat Earth community, both friend and foe. Break down some of the experiments being conducted by the activists, and find answers to the most common Flat Earth questions posed today. What role will NASA and the government have to play in the upcoming conflict? Where will religion stand when the dust settles? Will science be able to do anything to stem the tide of anti-scientism? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mark Sargent started out playing software games professionally. As a part time hobby he'd investigate and debunk conspiracy theories. The 'Flat Earth Theory' was the last on the list. Thinking this would be an easy case he was surprised to discover that the rabbit hole extended further than he ever could have imagined. In 2015, Mark put his thoughts together in a series of You Tube videos as 'Flat Earth Clues' which have been utilised by other You Tube creators and seen by millions in some format or other. This bought the opportunity to publish his first book Flat Earth Clues: The Sky's the Limit which delves into the possibility of our human civilization being inside a "Truman Show" like enclosed system and how it's been hidden from the public since 1956. Since then Mark has produced over 1,000 Flat Earth videos, been interviewed hundreds of times, and speaks to groups in different countries regarding this extraordinary claim. He hosts a weekly radio show on Truth Frequency Radio where you can hear more of his thoughts on this subject.
Publisher: Booglez Limited
ISBN: 1916611036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Is the Flat Earth theory that has been burning through the internet now ushering in the End of the World? Take a look at how we got here with Mark Sargent, star of the Netflix documentary "Behind the Curve" and creator of "Flat Earth Clues". Go behind the scenes in tell-all chapters covering many of the major players in the Flat Earth community, both friend and foe. Break down some of the experiments being conducted by the activists, and find answers to the most common Flat Earth questions posed today. What role will NASA and the government have to play in the upcoming conflict? Where will religion stand when the dust settles? Will science be able to do anything to stem the tide of anti-scientism? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mark Sargent started out playing software games professionally. As a part time hobby he'd investigate and debunk conspiracy theories. The 'Flat Earth Theory' was the last on the list. Thinking this would be an easy case he was surprised to discover that the rabbit hole extended further than he ever could have imagined. In 2015, Mark put his thoughts together in a series of You Tube videos as 'Flat Earth Clues' which have been utilised by other You Tube creators and seen by millions in some format or other. This bought the opportunity to publish his first book Flat Earth Clues: The Sky's the Limit which delves into the possibility of our human civilization being inside a "Truman Show" like enclosed system and how it's been hidden from the public since 1956. Since then Mark has produced over 1,000 Flat Earth videos, been interviewed hundreds of times, and speaks to groups in different countries regarding this extraordinary claim. He hosts a weekly radio show on Truth Frequency Radio where you can hear more of his thoughts on this subject.
Reclaiming Local Control through Superintendents, School Boards, and Community Activism
Author: Meredith Mountford
Publisher: IAP
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1987, Jacqueline Danzberger described school boards as the forgotten players. However, things have changed drastically for school boards over the past few years. No longer are school boards the forgotten players in school governance. Instead, school boards often find themselves in the center of controversies stemming from the intrusion of political partisanship into local governance structures which historically, and for the purposes of sustained democratic educational governance, were intentionally intended to be non-partisan elected boards. However, this is where many school boards find themselves today. The chapters in this volume address several key questions school board members are currently facing as they struggle to protect some of our country’s earliest guardrails of democracy; local control of schools. To be sure, school boards are no longer the forgotten players. Implications of this may be wide reaching and therefore deserve room in the current literature on educational governance. Volume II of the Research on the Superintendency series highlights recent research on school boards, local control, governance, and the superintendency. Each chapter is briefly described and the chapters are in a particular order that readers may wish to pay attention to as they enjoy the book. The first three chapters deal with local control in both rural and urban settings. The next two chapters are studies focused mainly on school boards and how their roles have shifted over the years followed by a chapter on the relationship between school boards and their superintendents within a regulatory environment and the level of stress it can bring to board members and superintendents. The final five chapters describe recent superintendent research that is closely linked to school governance or school board policies. We ask readers to juxtapose lessons learned in those five chapters to the role of school boards within the context of those chapters.
Publisher: IAP
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1987, Jacqueline Danzberger described school boards as the forgotten players. However, things have changed drastically for school boards over the past few years. No longer are school boards the forgotten players in school governance. Instead, school boards often find themselves in the center of controversies stemming from the intrusion of political partisanship into local governance structures which historically, and for the purposes of sustained democratic educational governance, were intentionally intended to be non-partisan elected boards. However, this is where many school boards find themselves today. The chapters in this volume address several key questions school board members are currently facing as they struggle to protect some of our country’s earliest guardrails of democracy; local control of schools. To be sure, school boards are no longer the forgotten players. Implications of this may be wide reaching and therefore deserve room in the current literature on educational governance. Volume II of the Research on the Superintendency series highlights recent research on school boards, local control, governance, and the superintendency. Each chapter is briefly described and the chapters are in a particular order that readers may wish to pay attention to as they enjoy the book. The first three chapters deal with local control in both rural and urban settings. The next two chapters are studies focused mainly on school boards and how their roles have shifted over the years followed by a chapter on the relationship between school boards and their superintendents within a regulatory environment and the level of stress it can bring to board members and superintendents. The final five chapters describe recent superintendent research that is closely linked to school governance or school board policies. We ask readers to juxtapose lessons learned in those five chapters to the role of school boards within the context of those chapters.