The Republican war on science /
The New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth.
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New York :
BasicBooks,
2006, ©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Where it begins
- The threat
- Political science 101
- From FDR to Nixon
- "Creation science" and Reagan's "dream"
- Defenseless against the dumb
- Junking "sound science"
- pt. 2. The business of science
- "The greatest hoax"
- Wine, jazz, and "data quality"
- Eating away at science
- Fishy science
- pt. 3. Scientific revelations
- "Creation science" 2.0
- Stemming research
- Sexed-up science
- pt. 4. The antiscience president
- Bush league science
- What we can do.