The Republican war on science
By: Chris Mooney.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: BasicBooks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780465046768
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Science -- Political aspects -- United States.; Conservatism.
Notes: "Revised and updated"--Cover.

Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Where it begins; title: The threat; title: Political science 101; title: From FDR to Nixon; title: "Creation science" and Reagan's "dream"; title: Defenseless against the dumb; title: Junking "sound science"; title: pt. 2. The business of science; title: "The greatest hoax"; title: Wine, jazz, and "data quality"; title: Eating away at science; title: Fishy science; title: pt. 3. Scientific revelations; title: "Creation science" 2.0; title: Stemming research; title: Sexed-up science; title: pt. 4. The antiscience president; title: Bush league science; title: What we can do.