TRIBAL SCIENCE: BRAINS, BELIEFS AND BAD IDEAS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540011B45107
English Summary/英文概要： When facing off a woolly mammoth, a few spear-wielding friends are more helpful than Darwin’s views on natural selection.
Mike McRae argues that humans didn’t evolve to do science, but to get along in tribes. Survival depended more on social connections than understanding the universe, but somehow science – the quest for objective knowledge – developed anyway. Tribal Science looks at where science came from and why it works despite the quirks of our tribal minds.
Mike shows how our tribal brains are driven by beliefs and biases and the need to belong, and how this social way of thinking meddles with our capacity to think critically. From here he charts an intriguing history of science, from the emergence of critical enquiry among early philosophers, to the development of the scientific method, major scientific discoveries and bizarre delusions, and our current dependence on modern medicine and technology. He looks at how our tribal brains manipulate science and why, in an age of evidence and enlightenment, we still cling to superstitions, beliefs and bad ideas – from ‘clinically proven’ cosmetics to bogus medical treatments and other miracles of pseudoscience. Finally, Mike considers the future of knowledge and the vital place of critical thinking in an information-saturated digital world.
Fun, fascinating and original, Tribal Science will not only challenge your beliefs about science, but will get you thinking about what really makes you tick.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人類的科學研究從來不是為了學問，而是發展了部落？！ 作者Mike McRae認為人類的科學研究從來不是為了學問，而是發展了部落。生存主要取決於社會關係，而非對宇宙的理解力，然而科學-對客觀知識的追求卻自然而生。《部落科學》研究了科學的起源以及它因何能無視我們的「壞」思想而依然運作呢？。
書中作者向讀者展示了信仰和偏見是如何左右我們的部落思維，並且這種社會思維方式是如何與批判性思維融為一體的。他為我們勾勒出了科學的歷史進程；從早期哲學家苛刻問題的產生，到科學方法的發展，主要科學發現和誤解；對現代醫學和科技的依賴程度等發展過程。
他審視了科學操控部落思維的方式和原因，當時雖是重視證據和啟示的年代，大家仍然對迷信，信仰和不良思想深信不疑-這些想法來自“臨床證實的”化妝品和迷信的醫學治療及其它偽科學的奇蹟。
本書集樂趣、暢想和原創為一體，不僅挑戰讀者的科學理念，還提供我們反思此種行為的原因。(兼职翻译-PZ & Vincent)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Canberra-based science writer Mike McRae started his science careertesting other people’s poo in a Queensland medical laboratory. With a passionfor education, he jumped ship and found himself teaching science to adolescentsin London’s notorious East End, followed by a year touring Australia withQuestacon’s Science Circus. Today he writes and illustrates CSIRO Education’spopular ‘Science by Email’ newsletter while producing radio documentaries forABC Radio National. Mike is also a regular on the public speaking circuit discussingall things science.
科技作家Mike McRae在Canberra昆士蘭醫學實驗室開始了自己的科學志業。因為對教育的熱愛，他離開澳洲，在倫敦東部教授科學課程，之後不久，回到澳大利亞，與Questacon科學馬戲團的共同演出，探究融入大眾的科學之細枝末節。現擔任CSIRO教學出版物的撰寫和說明工作。
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