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Scientific research is the time-honored key to objective knowledge. In the past it was funded pluralistically, but today certain portions of the market for knowledge are dominated by a single buyer, namely the government. This is especially true in the research fields that impinge on the regulatory sphere, such as pollution and climate change. As discussed in Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy, science today is in systematic trouble.

The popular notion is that science is a force for good. Knowledge, derived from theory and experiment, gives rise to technological advancement, which results in improved lives for all. The editors and authors of this book believe that this is not always the case. 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 examines a number of recent abuses of science in research areas including nutrition, pollution, drugs and the opioid crisis, and global warming.

Please don't let this book make you into a science cynic. Science has done much for us under both public and private funding; we certainly live longer, healthier lives! Many fundamental questions have been answered, especially in physics. We look forward to a future of still more vigorous scientific discovery; we ask only that science be structured in a more polycentric manner, and less subject to authoritarian abuse. We believe that the chapters you are about to read will more than justify these desires.

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cato Institute (November 7, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 365 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948647494
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948647496
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.01 x 0.9 x 8.96 inches
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Drjackl
5.0 out of 5 stars We need more books like this
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2021
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This book uses 10 examples to show how government funded science produces echo chambers that often result in policies that are economically , physically and environmentally harmful. Policies and regulations are put in place based upon the Ali test, often incorrect evidence. Once in place they are almost impossible to change . The nutrition guides that favored carbs over fats are an obvious example of negative policies. But that’s the tip of the iceberg . The most telling quote came from a senator who said we don’t have the luxury to wait for the facts to come in. We have to act now. People need to read this before blindly accepting health, climate and environmental claims made by advocates. They’re mostly wrong.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Warming has largely been at night and in the winter
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022
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Check multiple global temperature records East Anglia, US CRN, satellites and radiosondes) and it is clear that warming is differentially partitioned into night and winter. This is likely to continue, so what is the big deal?
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Mike T Walterman
5.0 out of 5 stars This is Real!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2020
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Having spent 40 years working in private industry, academia, and the federal government, I have witnessed each and every issue presented in this book. On the positive side, three of my employers practice good science because useful technology (aka products) must be produced that actually work in the real world; this to stay in business (survive). On the down side, my other employers suffered the issues presented in this book. Often (especially in the case of academia and government), politics always trumped good science because no working technology needed to be produced. This book addresses the "why" behind these often perplexing behaviors.
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Viggenator
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, well put together.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2020
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Well put together book with enough detail in each chapter to understand the issue presented (each chapter is a different issue), but not so much to be overwhelmingly boring. It isn't riveting material, but they tried to keep it as interesting as they could and did a good job at it.

I didn't fact check any of the claims, but Cato has a very good reputation so I didn't feel the need.
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Norman Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars Science Malpractice
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019
Yes, the science establishment is indeed an aristocracy. Power corrupts and so does money. The flow of government money into science has warped scientific practice. Truth is a causality along the road to ever more money. The science aristocracy is living off its former reputation as honest investigators of the natural world. But now they are largely mean-spirited bureaucrats who don't hesitate to fake science when it serves their bureaucratic and financial goals. The public, politicians, and the media are mostly scientific ignoramuses easily fooled into believing that fake science is rock-solid science. There is an alliance driven by the money-greed of the science mandarins and the socialist dreams of the political Left. It is not an accident that the many ecological catastrophes predicted by rogue science get political support from the Left. A wise President Eisenhower warned about the corrupting effect of money on science in this 1961 farewell address. There are essays about nutrition fads created by fake science, the hysteria over PM 2.5 or particles less than 2.5 microns floating in the air, our old friend global warming and radiation hysteria. A brave voice against the massive and corrupt science establishment.
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KD
1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong then. Even more wrong now. Dangerously wrong
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2020
Don’t buy it.
Patrick Michaels argued in 1990 that global
Warming would be just fine because it would just be warmer at night. That sounds pretty scientific, doesn’t it. Wrong then. Even more wrong now. Dangerously wrong
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stephen c.
2.0 out of 5 stars Cato in Decline
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Unlike the other negative reviewers, I'm quite sympathetic to the general theme of this book. My criticism lies not wit the theme, but with the writing style and organization. The presentation is rambling, unfocused, and remarkably un-academic. The author seems to have an attention span disorder. The text is dominated by hedge words; but, however, yet, notwithstanding, etc. In one 5 sentence paragraph, for example, 3 of the sentences began or quickly included one of these calls to exception. The author consistently fails to sustain conceptual points, and the net effect is both annoying and confusing. Cato was once my favorite think tank with exceptional political and social science publications. In the past decade or so, however, they appear to have lost their mojo. Not recommended. -steve
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Ron Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2023
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A little to verbose. Enjoyed it.
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Jay
4.0 out of 5 stars Science in Trouble
Reviewed in Canada on July 10, 2021
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Like almost all books written by a number of authors, the quality of writing was somewhat uneven. However, this is a small issue compared to the underlying message.
What the book clearly points out is that the whole scientific enterprise is in great peril! Furthermore, without the withdrawal of government funding (which is not likely to happen), there does no seem to be a way to fix the situation.
The message needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Science, on which so much of our society depends, is being destroyed.
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