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Author
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 Burns, Christopher, 1942-
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Deadly decisions : how false knowledge sank the Titanic, blew up the shuttle and led America into war / Christopher Burns.
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Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008.
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360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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AZ999 .B89 2008 -3wk Loan
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-346) and index.
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False knowledge. Titanic: unsinkable ; Medicine, money and war: unthinkable -- Virtual truth. Three Mile Island : the opposite is true ; Ignore, deny, forget ; Shuttle Challenger : no one is to blame ; A conspiracy of silence -- 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 -- Challenging the truth. Betsy Lehman : truth to power ; The truthful team ; Inspiration, reason, and consensus ; Les Philosphes -- The information war. The stag hunt ; Blinking red ; Facts, values, and concepts ; 9/11: reality hits home ; What went wrong? -- Deadly decisions. The information bubble ; Katrina : warners and warnees ; Uncertainty absorption ; Mrs. Aristotle’s teeth ; Six tests for truth ; The truth/action paradox -- The coming epidemic. Avian flu : the facts ; Believing WHO? ; Considering disaster -- Waltzing into war. Faking the news ; Manufacturing truth ; There is less to this than meets the eye ; Invading Iraq : the smoking gun ; Mission accomplished -- Truth systems. The truthful organization ; Truth systems crumble ; Can democracy survive? ; So? ; The future isn’t what it use to be.
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"In Deadly Decisions, Christopher Burns, one of the country’s leading minds 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!"-inside jacket.
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