The politically incorrect guide to science / Tom Bethell.
""If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?"" Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable st...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the lures of politics
- Global warming
- Yes, more nukes
- Good vibes: radiation hormesis
- "Good chemistry"
- The DDT ban
- Biodiversity and endangered species
- African AIDS: a political epidemic
- The folly of Dolly: cloning and its discontents
- The stem cell challenge to bioengineering
- A map to nowhere
- The great cancer error
- The abiding myths: flat earth and warfare between science and religion
- By chance, or by design?
- Evolution: the missing evidence
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index.