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Overview

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 the Eisenhower administration. 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, missile defense, abstinence 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 ...

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Overview

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 the Eisenhower administration. 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, missile defense, abstinence 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 and fringe theorists who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better than they know the science. 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 The Republican War on Science, 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.

Editorial Reviews

John Horgan
As the title indicates, Mooney's book is a diatribe, from start to finish. The prose is often clunky and clichéd, and it suffers from smug, preaching-to-the-choir self-righteousness. But Mooney deserves a hearing in spite of these flaws, because he addresses a vitally important topic and gets it basically right.
— The New York Times
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A litany of indictments of misuse and abuse by the current administration, painstakingly documented by a journalist who has made science and politics his beat. Mooney (a writer for Mother Jones, Slate, the Boston Globe) traces the "war on science" back to the Reagan days (remember Star Wars? acid rain? the ban on fetal tissue research?). He goes on to chronicle the anti-science movement that gained momentum in the Gingrich-led Congress of the '90s, which dismantled the Office of Technology Assessment and stacked hearings with fringe scientists ready to deny the ozone hole, global warming and dioxin risks. Mooney catalogues the players, the right-wing think tanks and the administration spokespeople who continue to deny a human role in global warming or species destruction, who argue that condoms are unsafe, that abortion is linked to breast cancer and that "Plan B" will encourage teen sex. Add to these abuses the litmus tests for candidates for government science advisory councils and political censoring of what gets posted as health information on the Web. Perhaps the most chilling quote is from a Ron Suskind interview with a "senior advisor," who defined Suskind and others as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality," adding, "That's not the way the world really works anyone. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." One can fault Mooney for damning all Republicans in the title-he admits there are the John McCains, for example, as well as problematic Democrats. Sharper editing to eliminate some repetitiveness would also help. Mooney has put the right-wing handwriting on the wall, and the prospect is scary.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780465046751
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 8/29/2005
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 352
  • Product dimensions: 6.54 (w) x 9.34 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

Chris Mooney, a journalist specializing in the relation of science and politics, is a Washington correspondent for Seed magazine. He has written for the American Prospect, Mother Jones, Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, and many other publications. The Republican War on Science is his first book. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2006

    Great Work

    I don't know what our GOP scientist here is talking about but Mooney's work is not an indictment of the GOP historically, but instead the current administration's policies of 'Junk Science' and blatant disregard for sound decision making in the face of overwhelming data. If his cronies could make a buck off of it, my 'republican scientist' friend, Bush would insist the stars in the sky were made of marshmallows. Sadly, there are too many 'scientists' that betray their field by accepting Bush's word as not only political doxa, but natural law. Too many of Bush's 'scientist' supporters are far busier being self-assured and towing the line than they are practicing and supporting real science-driven policies that are sound and well-supported by empirical evidence, not profit. Sir, you should have put your name on your review, maybe you could have squeezed some grant funding out of this lame duck.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2006

    comprehensive view of the abuse of science by republicans today

    The argument made by Chris Mooney in this book, that the current Republican-led federal government has abused and misused science for the benefit of religious conservatives and big business, is wholly convincing. The author gives his work a diachronic perspective by starting with developments withing the GOP several decades ago, leading up to the current situation. He does not imply that Teddy Roosevelt had ANYTHING to do with misuse of science, because that has nothing to do with current developments in the 21st century. Several topics are tackled in the book as case studies, including evolution, stem cell research, sex education, food industries and climate change. The extensive detail of the book can be daunting for those of us unfamiliar with all the politicians and organizations involved. That being said, it appears that the author tried carefully to cover all his bases in trying to make the information available for his readers, rather than simplifying issues too extensively.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2006

    Shocking for a Scientist to be Unscientific - Terrible Cliche Book

    This book warrants at best, the nearest trash can. As a scientist - and a republican - I can assert I know what I am talking about. I think the author patently ignores the fact-based scientific method and choses unscientic stereotyping to infer that to be a member of the GOP (the GOP that produced, for example Theodore Roosevelt) means to be ignorant and unscientific. Not so. Yes, I am the minority in the science world, and I am a centrist really - but if there is a problem with a given administration, it is wholly unscientific to pigeon-hole the whole of the GOP there too.... It would be as if I said 'democrats have wholly incompetent leaders, therefore scientists (democrats?) are having problems with moving Science forward in government because their ability to lead and have vision with discipline is wholly lacking.'... I know - I have to see it daily....

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 11, 2005

    What should drive policy

    This book really shows that many Republicans write policy on what they think often times without looking at the facts. Their position of being pro-business and anti-regulation no matter what shown in this book really shows that science research should be directing policy rather than industry and uniformed elected officals. There seems to be the pattern of have an idea and distort all opposition no matter how many people disagree with you.

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