Science can be a force for good, and it has enhanced our lives in countless ways, but even a cursory look at the last century shows that what passes for "science" can be detrimental. This book documents only some of the more recent abuses of science that informed members of the public should be aware of.
Science can be a force for good, and it has enhanced our lives in countless ways, but even a cursory look at the last century shows that what passes for "science" can be detrimental. This book documents only some of the more recent abuses of science that informed members of the public should be aware of.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He is the author and editor of several titles including Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything and Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know. Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents 1. Introduction Patrick J. Michaels and Terence Kealey 2. Science and Liberty: A Complicated Relationship Terence Kealey and Patrick J. Michaels 3. Larding the Science: The Dietary Fat Fiasco Terence Kealey 4. Heads in the Sand: How Politics Created the Salt-Hypertension Myth Michelle Minton 5. Death: The Unintended Consequence of the War on Opoids Jeffrey A. Singer 6. Drugs: The Systematic Prohibition of U. S. Science Trevor Burrus 7. Medical Innovation and the "Government-Academic-Biomedical Complex" Thomas R. Stossel 8. Regulation of Carcinogens and Chemicals: What Went Wrong Edward N. Calabrese 9. Radiation Poisoning Patrick J. Michaels 10. Can Politics Turn Gold into Dross? The Story of Alaska's Pebble Mine Ned Mamula 11. Endangered Science and the EPA's Finding of Endangerment from Carbon Dioxide Patrick J. Michaels 12. EPA's Conflicted Science on Fine Particulate Mortality Jason Scott Johnson
Contents 1. Introduction Patrick J. Michaels and Terence Kealey 2. Science and Liberty: A Complicated Relationship Terence Kealey and Patrick J. Michaels 3. Larding the Science: The Dietary Fat Fiasco Terence Kealey 4. Heads in the Sand: How Politics Created the Salt-Hypertension Myth Michelle Minton 5. Death: The Unintended Consequence of the War on Opoids Jeffrey A. Singer 6. Drugs: The Systematic Prohibition of U. S. Science Trevor Burrus 7. Medical Innovation and the "Government-Academic-Biomedical Complex" Thomas R. Stossel 8. Regulation of Carcinogens and Chemicals: What Went Wrong Edward N. Calabrese 9. Radiation Poisoning Patrick J. Michaels 10. Can Politics Turn Gold into Dross? The Story of Alaska's Pebble Mine Ned Mamula 11. Endangered Science and the EPA's Finding of Endangerment from Carbon Dioxide Patrick J. Michaels 12. EPA's Conflicted Science on Fine Particulate Mortality Jason Scott Johnson
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