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Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain

Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain

Agin, Dan

Paperback

Sports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0312374801
ISBN13: 9780312374808
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: Nov 27 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today--a clarion call to action that concerns us all.--Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The American public is suffering from a rampage against reason by special interests in government, commerce, and the faith industry. In Junk Science, Dan Agin offers an overdue indictment of the groups that twist science for their own gain.

Provocative, comprehensive, and hard-hitting, Agin argues from the center that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of people who consciously distort the public's understanding of the real world. With entertaining candidness, he reveals the data faking, reality ignoring, fear mongering, and outright lying that contribute to intentionally manufactured public ignorance. Agin outs the factions twisting scientific data to maintain riches and power in sections including:

-- Buyer Beware (genetically modified foods, aging, and tobacco companies)

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