false 185833 4 The <I>New York Times</I> bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth. <P> 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 Richard Nixon fired his science advisors. 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, evolution, sex education, product safety, environmental regulation, and many others-the Bush administration's positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus. Federal science agencies-once fiercely independent under both Republican and Democratic presidents-are increasingly staffed by political appointees who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better than they know the science. <P> 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. In <I>The Republican War on Science</I>, 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. 698278 2005 The Republican War on Science total:192|5:34|4:73|3:63|2:19|1:3| 192 692 399 40 3 4 false false Sun Aug 19 03:31:32 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 05 18:54:39 -0700 2008 The Republican War on Science might have been better served had the book been written by two authors; one focusing on politics and the other on science. Mooney's forte appears to be political journalism, which leaves the book's science somewhat lacking in depth, and renders the work ...more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Aug 17 11:09:50 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 11:14:51 -0700 2007 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 18:06:56 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 08:38:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jun 12 16:29:42 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 16:30:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 13:29:06 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 10:39:12 -0700 2007
For me the most fas...more...]]> 5 1 true false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Mar 22 16:44:22 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 22 16:46:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:00 -0800 2009 A book titled The Republican War on Science is bound to court controversy, and whether critics liked the book or not surely reflected their own political views and opinion of the current administration. Nonetheless, most reviewers believed that Mooney makes a convincing case that the GOP has launche...

more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 17 09:54:02 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 06:26:05 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Feb 18 15:21:29 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 16:57:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 16 16:16:31 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 16:16:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 07:46:54 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 14:37:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 17:55:47 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 17:58:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 16 11:18:29 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 11:19:37 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:32:46 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 16 14:53:50 -0700 2009 A couple of months ago I heard an interview of the first surgeon general in the George W. Bush administration. The in the interview, a common theme was the repression of science by the Bush administration. (The administration strategically ignored scientific findings in order...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 06:19:36 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 06:21:12 -0800 2009 1 2 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 07:34:10 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 07:38:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 09:19:48 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 09:29:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jan 04 17:45:47 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 13:01:29 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 17:45:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 06:38:35 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 06:44:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 18:42:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:51:10 -0700 2009