The Republican War on Science
Chris Mooney
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN: 0465046762
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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The next year, Reardon founded yet another of the quasi-academic think tanks and advocacy institutes that seem omnipresent when it comes to the Christian Right and science: the Elliot Institute, whose full name is—fittingly enough—the “Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research.” At the time, Reardon had a background in electronic engineering. Yet he soon began to conduct actual scientific research, publishing his first peer-reviewed study in 1992. In 1995 he acquired a Ph.D. in biomedical
millennium. See, for example, Mann, Bradley, and Hughes, “Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 26, no. 6, March 15, 1999, pp. 759-762. Though multiple studies confirm: In his Senate testimony Mann noted, “More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere in past centuries.” See also
enough, they reported that after exposing tadpoles to different levels of atrazine in water in the laboratory, “gonadal abnormalities,” such as multiple gonads or hermaphroditism, developed in up to 20 percent of the animals at all but the tiniest concentrations. Male frogs exposed to atrazine also had much smaller larynges (a demasculinizing trait that could interfere with mating calls). These effects probably occur, according to Hayes, because the weed-killing chemical induces the expression of
That included the U.S. government. On January 5, 2004, William R. Steiger, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the Bush Department of Health and Human Services (and, as it happens, George H. W. Bush’s godson), sent a missive to WHO director-general Lee Jong-wook in which he invoked “sound science” and included an exhaustive critique of the already finalized technical report from the group of which Kumanyika had been a part. Stating that the United States had a different
about ‘junk science’ after our interim report. And they just have no appreciation of what’s going on.” It is important to remember, says Ruhl, that most ESA decisions will not be scrutinized as exhaustively as the Klamath decision. The review panel had a $685,000 budget and over a year to reanalyze a decision that had to be made quickly. And while the Klamath committee did find that there was “not sufficient scientific evidence to support what the agency did,” Ruhl continues, “we never said