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The Republican War on Science

By Chris Mooney

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| Paperback | 9780465046768

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Book Description

The New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth.

Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any Continue

Critics

Political Science

Last spring, a magazine asked me to look into a whistleblower case involving a United States Fish and Wildlife Service biologist named Andy Eller. Eller, a veteran of 18 years with the service, was fired after he publicly charged it with failing to p ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

Those bastards, we’ve got to cut them back

Little is required to ensure political quiet in the American scientific community. A bit of annual growth in government outlays for research, presidential medal-pinning ceremonies in the Rose Garden for revered elders of the profession, and expressio ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

1 Review

As if there were any doubts about the atrocities perpetrated by the Republican government, here's an account of what they're doing to science: to stem cell research, to the environment, to endargened species, to the teaching of evolution, etc., while deriding people who live "in what we call the rea ... (continue)

As if there were any doubts about the atrocities perpetrated by the Republican government, here's an account of what they're doing to science: to stem cell research, to the environment, to endargened species, to the teaching of evolution, etc., while deriding people who live "in what we call the reality-based community," which consists of those who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." (I'm not joking.) Read it and be prepared to take a bath with Clorox and a steel brush when you are done.

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