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Denying to the Grave : Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us by Sara E. Gorman, PhD, MPH, Jack M. Gorman, MD is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong, that the evidence is incomplete, and that unidentified hazards lurk everywhere. In Denying to the Grave , Gorman and Gorman, a father-daughter team, explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several examples of such denial as test cases, they propose six key principles that may lead individuals to reject "accepted" health-related wisdom: the charismatic leader; fear of complexity; confirmation bias and the internet; fear of corporate and government conspiracies; causality and filling the ignorance gap; and the nature of risk prediction. The authors argue that the health sciences are especially vulnerable to our innate resistance to integrate new concepts with pre-existing beliefs. This psychological difficulty of incorporating new information is on the cutting edge of neuroscience research, as scientists continue to identify brain responses to new information that reveal

Who reads Denying to the Grave : Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us?

Author

Sara E. Gorman, PhD, MPH, Jack M. Gorman, MD

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197563007

Category

science

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14