Science Left Behind

by Campbell, Hank; Berezow, Alex

• ISBN13: 9781610391641
• ISBN10: 1610391640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-12
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

It's become a truism that conservatives are anti-science through and through. Pundits eagerly trot out the fact that many republicans don't believe in evolution, don't believe in global warming, and dislike embryonic stem cell research. If science were constituted of just those three issues, then the critics might have a point. However, as science writers Hank Campbell and Alex Berezow argue, there is much more to science. The anti-vaccine, anti-nuclear power, anti-animal research, and anti-genetic modification movements are all rooted in progressive ideology. So are the more extreme exponents of environmental movement, as well as those who oppose science education reform. The Progressive War on Sciencecalls the left to task for the unconscious political biases that lead to dangerous fallacies, and proves definitively that anti-scientific thinking is a bipartisan phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Progressive War on Spoons	p. 1
What's a Progressive?	p. 9
The State of the "Pro-Science" Union	p. 21
Organic Food: The Holy Eucharist of Environmentalism	p. 39
Food Fight!	p. 57
Crappy Conservation and Clean Energy Chaos	p. 69
Sunshine Days and Flower Power	p. 89
Bring on the Vaccines and Viagra	p. 109
PETA: Professional Experimenters Testing on Animals	p. 125
Welcome to the Anti-Renaissance	p. 141
Boys Have Wee-Wees and Girls Have Hoo-Hoos	p. 161
Education and Its Discontents	p. 177
The Death of Science Journalism	p. 195
False Equivalence	p. 209
The War on Excellence	p. 225
Twelve Issues for 2012 and Beyond	p. 239
Conclusion Closing Arguments: An Appeal to Scientific Reasoning	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 261
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 293
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