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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Mooney |
ISBN: | 9780465046751 0465046754 |
OCLC Number: | 58605134 |
Description: | ix, 342 pages ; 25 cm |
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 -- Epilogue: What we can do. |
Responsibility: | Chris Mooney. |
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Abstract:
This is not unique to the Bush administration, but it is largely a Republican phenomenon, born of a conservative dislike of environmental, health, and safety regulation, and at the extremes, of evolution and legalized abortion.
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