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"Mooney performs a useful service by researching all the details and interviewing as many of the protagonists as possible. He also enriches the narrative with much historical context, tracing over decades a gradual politicization of science that has culminated in the present farce." The Guardian "Chris Mooney, a liberal investigative journalist, has bravely decided to thwack his way into this jungle of propaganda and lies on our behalf...definitive...disturbing..." Independent on Sunday "Mooney takes several un-related charged debates - on climate change, stem-cell research, whether abortion harms women - and stitches them together to form... a pretty convincing tapestry". The Times "...Chris Mooney argues persuasively that the Bush Administration's hostility to science is not limited to denial of global warming and evolution, but spans the field, from family planning to missile defence. He is particularly illuminating about tactics: the method is not simply to rubbish the experts, but to sow doubt by nurturing a handful of maverick dissenters, so the non-expert public is left wondering who to believe." The Times (Best Science Books of 2005) "Rather than representing an isolated incident, Chris Mooney argues that the "hoax" argument about climate change forms part of a systematic undermining of science on the part of the Bush administration, which connects the teaching of creationism in schools to embryonic stem-cells and child obesity to the depletion of the ozone layers." The Irish Times "a valuable chronicle of Bush's persistent efforts to undermine the authority of science in the interests of his anti-regulatory and anti-abortion agendas." London Review of Books "The book is a well researched guide to the recent history and has to be praised in its original analysis of the tactics used by the new Right to starve the scientific advisory apparatus and in its bringing out the confrontational nature of the attitudes of the Bush Administration and its allies. It should be read by Americans and will be interesting to scientists everywhere. We should be grateful to Chris Mooney for his diligence." Time Higher Education Supplement "The American conservative movement, as Chris Mooney points out in this fiercely anti-Republican book, has brought together two powerful constituencies - big industry and the religious right - both of which have an interest in skewing scientific advice so that it says what they want to hear... (his) case is so appealing, his examples so glaring..." New Statesman"

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The bestselling book that exposed the American right-wing agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth - now thoroughly updated throughout and with a new preface by the author. Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing America. 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 defence, 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 the US government's increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience. The interest in The Republican War on Science has been phenomenal. The book received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, and the film rights have been optioned by Supersize Me creator Morgan Spurlock. This new edition has been thoroughly revised, bringing the book completely up to date with added epilogues to each chapter and a new preface by Chris Mooney.

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die Unterminierung des wissenschaftlichen Weltbildes ... 1. Oktober 2005

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Die Bush-Verwaltung, einerseits religiös-fundamentalistisch, andererseits kommerziellen Interessen hörig, baut ihren unverfrorenen Kampf gegen ein wissenschaftliches Weltbild weiterhin spektakulär aus. Darwinismus als Bestandteil des Biologie-Unterrichts in Schulen wird bekämpft, an diesem Punkt nicht folgsame, widerspenstige Lehrer werden mit Entlassung bedroht. Der wissenschaftliche Kampf für eine Reduzierung der globalen Erwärmung wird verdreht dargestellt als angeblich neidischer Angriff auf den Energie-Verbrauchsstandard der amerikanischen Bevölkerung. Ähnlich wie die Tabak-Industrie die Warnrufe gegen das Rauchen erstickte, lässt die Ölindustrie die Warnung vor Ressourcen-Vergeudung an sich abglitschen. Die an Militär-Aufträgen interessierte Industrie unterminiert pazifistische Bemühungen, Stammzellen-Forschung wird aus religiös-fundamentalistischen Gründen blockiert. Der Angriff auf das wissenschaftlich-kritische Weltbild renommierter Forschungs-Institute durch die gegenwärtige rechtskonservative Republikanische Partei um den Pseudo-Evangelisten George W. Bush ist vielleicht schlimmer als sporadische Bedrohungen durch Terror-Akte: denn in Washington stabilisiert sich ein systematischer, lang-anhaltender, leider schon sehr effektiver Angriff auf die menschliche Vernunft. Aller wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt, mühsam in den letzten 400 Jahren erkämpft, scheint angesichts des rechtskonservativen, christlich-fundamentalistischen Zusammenrottens sich in Luft aufzulösen. Eine Luft allerdings, in der Tarnkappenbomber immer noch prima fliegen können. Der Verfasser des Buches, Chris Mooney, der für die angesehene Wissenschaftszeitschrift SEED schreibt, hat hier auf wirklich gute Weise zusammengefasst, was derzeit auch leider zunehmend Politikherstellungsprozesse in Europa kontaminiert ...

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Fight against scientific conceptions of the world ... 20. Oktober 2005

The Bush administration (enslaved to on the one hand religious lobbies, on the other hand commercial interests) improves their insolent fight against a scientific conception of the world spectacularly. Darwin's evolution theory as a component of the biology lesson in schools is fought by creationism or the slogan of an "intelligent designer" (God?), obedient, at this point unruly teachers are threatened with dismissal. The scientific fight for a reduction of the global warming is represented crazily as an allegedly jealous attack on the energy consumption standard of the American population. Like the tobacco industry suffocated the warning cries against smoking, so the oil industry lets slip the warning on resource wasting. The industry interested in armed forces orders undermines pacifist efforts, embryonic stem cell research is blocked for religious reasons. The attack on the scientific critical conception of the world of renowned research institutes by the present right-wing conservative Republicans around the Pseudo evangelist George W. Bush is perhaps worse than sporadic threats by Islamistic terrorists: because a systematic attack on the human reason stabilizes himself in Washington, continuously more and more effectively. Scientific progress, won within the last 400 years, seems to dissolve into air in view of the right-wing conservative Christian fundamentalist banding together. An air though, in which Air Force bombers are still be able to fly fantastically. The author of the book, Chris Mooney, who writes for the respected science magazine SEED, has summarized in a really good way, what, at present, unfortunately in Europe increasingly is contaminating politics production processes, too...

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Can't Recommend This Book Enough 1. September 2005

Von A Patriotic Professor - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

I've been psyched about the release of this book for months now, and it doesn't disappoint. Far from it: this is an unbelievably thorough, balanced, and well-researched study of a phenomenon that ALL Americans need to be concerned about, no matter what their political stripes are. While the title may mislead you into thinking that this is a partisan book, Mooney's dedication here is to the integrity of the scientific research process, and not at all to politics. Indeed, his argument is that the politicization of the scientific research process is bad no matter which party does it, but that the Bush Administration and the current incarnation of the Republican Party is particularly culpable of abusing science for partisan gain. Indeed, Mooney heaps praise on the Nixon administration science policies, which were much better than what we have under the current president.

Read this book. It's leaps and bounds better than any other political book out today- Coulter AND Franken included.

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An important and balanced book 30. August 2005

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Mooney does a good job at meticulously showing the politicization of science by both sides, but as the title shows, he refuses to make the common journalistic mistake of imposing "false balance" where it is not warranted. Just as you wouldn't say, "people differ on roundness of the Earth", Mooney has the courage and the wherewithall to call a spade a spade - and he doesn't ask you to take his word for it.

The facts are here for anyone with eyes to see. The "perfect storm" of anti-regulatory conservatives and fundamentalist Christians have combined to wage a unified war against science with a vengeance that the disorganized "frankenfood" liberals can only dream of.

Mooney's objective, scientific approach to making his case only makes his partisan conclusions that much more compelling and impossible to deny. In this war of reason vs. ideology, Mooney plants himself firmly on the side of reason, while always being fair. After reading his book, anyone who values science and critical thinking will do the same.

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A Call to Action for People Who Care About Science 2. September 2005

Von Fred Bortz "Dr. Fred" - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

That oft-quoted statement from Carl Sagan captures the essence of the scientific approach to knowledge. Before an idea can achieve the revered status of "theory," it must survive round after round of skeptical criticism.

Evolution, for example, has withstood nearly 150 years of challenges. With minor modifications to Darwin's seminal ideas, it has become perhaps the most robust theory in all of science.

Religious fundamentalists, who oppose that theory as well as abortion and embryonic stem cell research, are major combatants in what journalist Chris Mooney describes in his new book as The Republican War on Science. Allied with them is a force of neo-conservative soldiers who resist the conclusions of environmental research, especially about global climate change.

Yet neither religion nor business is fundamentally opposed to science. Probably a majority of American scientists guide their lives by faith in a Creator, but they do not consider their houses of worship as observatories or laboratories in which to test the existence of a deity. And most modern businesses rely on science and technology to make a profit.

Thus most readers of this book, including liberal Democrats, will consider Mr. Mooney's brash thesis extraordinary. Though they may view it an interesting model of what is happening in American politics today, they will demand extraordinary research before declaring it a viable theory.

Indeed, the evidence supporting the existence of a partisan War on Science will never measure up to the Sagan criterion. The most the author can hope for is that open-minded people will consider his ideas compelling. In that, he has succeeded admirably.

By the time readers finish this book they will understand who the opponents of science are and how they have taken control of the Republican Party. The Party's rightist base has adopted positions that are antithetical to science, not because they oppose science per se but because government policies suggested by the scientific consensus threaten their religious beliefs, their economic status, or their societal influence.

Readers will also see the very effective political strategy that this alliance has evolved: to redefine science, to undermine science, and to misconstrue science even to the point of dismissing scientific consensus in favor of increasingly discredited fringe ideas.

The United States may not be embroiled in a war on science, but that phrase describes a useful model for understanding the dangers of the current administration's antiscientific tactics to our nation's future and its character. For that Republicans and Democrats, scientists and people of faith should be grateful to Chris Mooney.
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