Undermining Science - Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration

Informationen zum Autor Seth Shulman is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for many magazines! including Nature! Smithsonian! the Atlantic! Discover! Rolling Stone! Parade! and Popular Science; and for newspapers including! the Times of London! the Boston Globe! and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of books including The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military. Klappentext "Shulman's remarkably well-documented litany of abuses should serve as a wake-up call not only to society! but also to political leaders! who cannot govern for long without independent scientific expertise grounded in unquestioned integrity."-Simon Levin! Center for BioComplexity! Princeton University Zusammenfassung Shows how the Bush administration systematically misled Americans on a range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. This book focusses on how this issue played out during the presidency of George W Bush.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Seth Shulman, Shulman Seth
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.05.2008
• EAN: 9780520256262
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25626-2
• Seiten: 232
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; USA, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy