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The Republican War on Science
Chris Mooney
In the tradition of What Liberal Media? and What's the Matter with Kansas?, a stinging indictment of how one party has placed politics over science and embraced politically motivated pseudoscience
Basic Books
September 2005
342 pages
ISBN: 0465046754
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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