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Science, politicized!?
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 time since the Eisenhower administration.
In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized manner; spun or distorted to fit the speaker’s agenda; or, when they’re too inconvenient, ignored entirely. On a broad array of issues—stem cell research, climate change, abstinence education, mercury pollution, and many others—the Bush administration’s positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus.
In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney ties together the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.
Heheh. Nice elephant.
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Posted by Giles, Tuesday, November 8, 2005, at 9:40 AM.
Posted to Book design | Freedoms and rights
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And speaking of politicized, the design doesn’t let up. Love how “Science” is in blue. Even a blue cast to the broken syringe!
I’d like to see the elephant stepping on the syringe … then again, PETA might go apeshit over it.