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100 1 $aBurns, Christopher,$d1942-
245 10 $aDeadly decisions :$bhow false knowledge sank the Titanic, blew up the shuttle and led America into war /$cChristopher Burns.
264 1 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2008.
264 4 $c℗♭2008
300 $a360 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 337-346) and index.
505 0 $a1. False knowledge : Titanic: unsinkable ; Medicine, money and war: unthinkable -- 2. Virtual truth : Three Mile Island: the opposite is true ; Ignore, deny, forget ; Shuttle Challenger: no one is to blame ; A conspiracy of silence -- 3. Members of the mind : The truthful brain ; Some things must be believed to be seen ; USS Vincennes: the system worked fine ; Faster than the speed of thought -- 4. Challenging truth : Betsy Lehman: truth to power ; The truthful team ; Inspiration, reason, and consensus ; Les Philosophes -- 5. The information war : The stag hunt ; Blinking red ; Facts, values, and concepts ; 9/11: reality hits home ; What went wrong? -- 6. Deadly decisions : The information bubble ; Katrina: warners and warnees ; Uncertainty absorption ; Mrs. Aristotle's teeth ; Six tests for truth ; The truth/action paradox -- 7. The coming epidemic : Avian flu: the facts ; Believing WHO? ; Considering disaster -- 8. Waltzing into war : Faking the news ; Manufacturing truth ; There is less to this than meets the eye ; Invading Iraq: the smoking gun ; Mission accomplished -- 9. Truth systems : The truthful organization ; Truth systems crumble ; Can democracy survive? ; So? ; The future isn't what it used to be.
520 $aOne of the country's leading experts on modern information management, searches the biology of the brain, the behavior of groups, and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of "virtual truth": elaborate constructs of internally consistent evidence and assumptions that purport to describe reality but can often be dead wrong.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aErrors.
650 0 $aTruth.
650 0 $aThought and thinking.
650 0 $aRationalization (Psychology)
650 0 $aHoaxes$xHistory.
650 0 $aDeception$xHistory.
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650 7 $aRationalization (Psychology)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01090286
650 7 $aThought and thinking.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01150249
650 7 $aTruth.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01158235
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBurns, Christopher, 1942-$tDeadly decisions.$dAmherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008$w(OCoLC)682120100
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008030487.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2008030487-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2008030487-d.html
856 42 $zAdditional Information at Google Books$uhttp://books.google.com/books?isbn=9781591026600
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