Uncertain Science…Uncertain World
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Author(s): H. N. Pollack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781884
Format: hardback
243pp
Price: £18.95
Review Date: 14 April 2003
Review: In this book the author aims to help the readers to make sense of the contradictions and uncertainties inherent in the problems posed to scientists, such as global warming, radioactive waste disposal and earthquake prediction. Uncertainly will always be with us. However, by acquainting the readers with the ways that uncertainties arise in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of uncertainty, and how they reach their conclusions in the face of this uncertainty, Henry Pollack enables them to evaluate the problems for themselves from their own perspectives and experiences and make ‘mid-course corrections’ should new information be available.