{"product_id":"junk-science-an-overdue-indictment-of-government-industry-and-faith-groups-that-twist-science-for-their-own-gain-paperback","title":"Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Agin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today--a clarion call to action that concerns us all.\"--Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of \u003ci\u003eAwakenings \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe American public is suffering from a rampage against reason by special interests in government, commerce, and the faith industry. In \u003ci\u003eJunk Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Dan Agin offers \u003ci\u003ean overdue indictment of\u003c\/i\u003e the groups that twist science for their own gain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProvocative, comprehensive, and hard-hitting, Agin argues from the center that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of people who consciously distort the public's understanding of the real world. With entertaining candidness, he reveals the data faking, reality ignoring, fear mongering, and outright lying that contribute to intentionally manufactured public ignorance. Agin outs the factions twisting scientific data to maintain riches and power in sections including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-- \"Buyer Beware\" (genetically modified foods, aging, and tobacco companies)\u003cbr\u003e-- \"Medical Follies\" (chiropractics, health care, talk therapy)\u003cbr\u003e-- \"Poison and Bombs in the Greenhouse\" (pollution, warfare, global warming)\u003cbr\u003e-- \"Religion, Embryos, and Cloning\"\u003cbr\u003e-- \"Genes, Behavior, and Race\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe already pay a heavy price for many groups' conscious manipulation of the public's understanding of science, and \u003ci\u003eJunk Science \u003c\/i\u003earms us with understanding, cutting through the fabric of lies and setting the record straight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Agin is one angry empiricist...focused, extremely articulate, skilled in debate, and above all, dedicated only to what can be experienced through the senses and duplicated in the laboratory.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An eye- and brain-opener, fraught with insight and plenty of astute observations and illustrative cases-in-point.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Agin\u003c\/b\u003e has a Ph.D. in biological psychology and thirty years of laboratory-research experience in neurobiology. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and editor in chief of the online journal \u003ci\u003eScienceWeek.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.26 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758629290272,"sku":"9780312374808","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/451d43f7c0ebec5a19e78bcea6f01972_44462f3e-956a-4dce-9218-d358799580d3.webp?v=1780130974","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/junk-science-an-overdue-indictment-of-government-industry-and-faith-groups-that-twist-science-for-their-own-gain-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}