Eight Gun-Lobby Agnotology Degrading the Truth about Firearms

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. One Agnotology, Thirty Years in the Making 1
5. Two How the Most Important Fact of Global Warming Has Been Obscured 23
6. Three Preventing Unwanted Births Can Help Mitigate Climate Change—While Enlarging Human Liberties 42
7. Four AI-Fueled Ignorance, Confusion, and Profit 57
8. Five On Data Loss and Disappearance in Digital Societies 71
9. Six Law against Knowledge Anti-Epistemology 85
10. Seven Why We Wrongly Imagine Adam Smith as a Free Market Fundamentalist 100
11. Eight Gun-Lobby Agnotology Degrading the Truth about Firearms 114
12. Nine Gluttony and Sloth? Personal Responsibility versus the True Cause of Obesity 133
13. Ten How Big Meat Has Created and Legitimized Ignorance 147
14. Eleven On the Burial of the Palestinian Nakba 160
15. Twelve Euphemism in the Architecture and Language of Treblinka 171
16. Thirteen Hiram Powers, Black Agnotology, and Segregated Art History 187
17. Fourteen “Civilian” Ignorance, American Militarism, and the Post-9/ 11 Wars 209
18. Contributors 223
19. Notes 227
20. Index 287