| ASIN | 0465046762 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Basic Books (August 29, 2006) |
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 376 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780465046768 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0465046768 |
| Item Weight | 13.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 8.5 x 0.85 x 11 inches |
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The Republican War on Science Paperback – August 29, 2006
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Chris Mooney is a science and political journalist, blogger, podcaster, and experienced trainer of scientists in the art of communication. He is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science and most recently The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality (April 2012). He blogs for Science Progress, a website of the Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund, and is a host of the Point of Inquiry podcast.
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Focusing a bit on the Bush years (so this has nothing to do with this Administration, or at least not in detail), Mooney explores just how it is that the very thing that fuels our economy, saves our lives and informs our existence can be disregarded by the powerful.
Short answer: It's all for the money, honey.
The long answer--which is very eye-opening indeed--is well worth this read. Well worth it. Some of the players in the mess are still playing, and using the same toys.
I found Mooney's writing to be fairly streamlined--here and there a little dull--but rather full of abbreviations for committees and associations...but that was truly the only annoying thing.
It's also heavily annotated, which may reassure some readers that the book is basically full of dry but disturbing facts, instead of dry but disturbing opinion.
Science stakes its reputation on the fact that credible theory can be repeated. Today, scientific theory is being met head on by "industry-based" research, which defines the role of research as producing a result that will justify the case of the industry. Mooney lists specific processes that an industry will employ to justify a case, or in essence, to defeat science where scientific experiment doesn't support the case of the industry. Industry-based research may not be repeatable, and, sadly, quite often not founded in wisdom. Certainly, Solomon's wish deserves new focus for religious conservatives today.
The fall of tobacco companies is an instance in which an industry could not defeat science. Whereas the cigarette industry can make a lot of money selling cancer sticks, it was never the cigarette industries goal to produce cancer. While we have become very attached to our capitalistic system for its material wealth, too few people will admit in a capitalistic society that an industry can make a lot of money while hurting a staggering number of people.
The book rarely ventures into social sciences. Economics, health, education, human resources and employment all suffer similar abuses, but their cases are not suggested. I would suggest there is yet more to be told.
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The book was a fairly easy read, if a little disjointed in places (I couldn't quite see why Mooney moves from one topic to another on occasion.
My biggest grumble now would be that it's a bit dated (I read the book in 2014). I focusses on the Bush White House, and its' associated congress.






