The politically incorrect guide to science
by Bethell, Tom
Argues that the explanations of issues such as global warming, stem cell research, and evolution that are presented to the public are actually formulated by liberals seeking to advance their own agenda and preserve their research funding.
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- Full title :The politically incorrect guide to science / Tom Bethell.
Summary
Argues that the explanations of issues such as global warming, stem cell research, and evolution that are presented to the public are actually formulated by liberals seeking to advance their own agenda and preserve their research funding.
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- Publication Date:©2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, Regnery Pub
- Place of Publication:Washington, DC
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 270 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:089526031X, 9780895260314
- oclc:ocm61859854
- LC Classification:Q127.U5
- Dewey Decimal:509/.73
Table of Contents
Global warming : We love the seventies ; Evidence for warming: watch a hockey game ; Profiles in courage -- Yes, more nukes : The new alchemy ; Ignorance, fear, and the search for virtue ; A “green” civil war ; Piddle power -- Good vibes: the virtue of radiation : Background radiation ; Chernobyl ; Plutonium myth ; Catching some (gamma) rays -- “Good chemistry” : The comeback kid: Dr. Edward Calabrese ; The dioxin panic ; Studying dioxin -- The DDT ban : Silent but deadly: Rachel Carson ; Politicized science ; Walking on eggshells ; EPA ban ; Africa pays ; The learning curve ; How to rescind the ban -- Biodiversity and endangered species : How many species, how many extinguished? ; Political science ; Actual cases ; Political taxonomy ; Issues of property -- African AIDS: a political epidemic : AIDS redefined ; False positive ; Life and death ; Quiet population explosion ; Post-colonial health -- The folly of Dolly: cloning and its discontents -- The stem call challenge to bioengineering -- A map to nowhere : Genome is decoded: again ; Not in the genes? We always knew that . . . ; Worthless genes ; The unsolved problem ; Gene therapy hits kids with SCID ; Venter hit jackpot, and P…
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