Undermining science: suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration

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This vitally important exposé shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue has played out during the Presidency of George W. Bush and the first to comprehensively document his administration's abuses of science. In 2001, a gro…

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Full title :Undermining science : suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration / Seth Shulman.

Summary

This vitally important exposé shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue has played out during the Presidency of George W. Bush and the first to comprehensively document his administration's abuses of science. In 2001, a group of eminent American scientists affiliated with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UC.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 202 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1429413786, 9781429413787, 9780520932654, 052093265X, 1282358987, 9781282358980
oclc:ocm76965344
LC Classification:Q127.U6
Dewey Decimal:509.73/090511

Facts matter --"Icing" the data on climate change -- Doctoring evidence about your health -- Abstaining from the truth on abstinence and aids -- Clear skies? healthy forests? understanding Bush's real environmental policy -- When good science is the endangered species -- Burying more than intelligence -- Stacking the deck -- Stem cells and monkey trials -- Restoring scientific integrity.

Subjects

Groupes de pression Interessenvertretung Politics and government Politique scientifique et technique -- … Pressure groups Recherche -- Aspect politique -- États-… Research -- Political aspects Research -- Political aspects -- United… Science -- history Science and state Science and state -- United States Since 2001 United States United States -- Politics and governmen… USA, Government Verwaltung