Why Dissent Matters: Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss

Frances Kelsey was a quiet Canadian doctor and scientist who stood up to a huge pharmaceutical company wanting to market a new drug - thalidomide - and prevented an American tragedy. The nature writer Rachel Carson identified an emerging environmental disaster and pulled the fire alarm. Public protests, individual dissenters, judges, and juries can change the world - and they do.

A wide-ranging and provocative work on controversial subjects, Why Dissent Matters tells a story of dissent and d...