信息混沌风暴中的生存指南

imothy Caulfield adeptly summarizes the thesis of his new book, The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters, with this metaphor: “We are adrift in a storm of information chaos, and we are tearing down the lighthouses” (p. 2). Caulfield is a professor in the Faculty of Law and in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. He has conducted extensive scholarship on the communication of science and pseudoscience in the media. He has been a vigorous advocate for protection of consumers in the healthcare arena. He has access to other relevant experts, has authored several previous books, and is a skilled science communicator. …