Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?

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Edited by John Holbo Glassbead Books A Crooked Timber Book Event Information and Pricing 978-1-932559-91-0 (paperback, $11.00); 978-1-932559-92-7 (PDF, free download) 104 pages Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book “Man, you guys worked me hard . . . ”—Chris Mooney From stem cell research to intelligent design to global warming, political conflict over science is heating up. In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science , journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles. And, again and again, those obstacles have arisen on the right—from the Bush administration, from coalitions of Republicans and from individually powerful Republicans. As the new paperback edition announces, Mooney’s book, “brings this whole story together for the first time, weaving the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.” Looking for a Fight : Is There a Republican War on Science? started life as a ‘book event’—an online, roundtable-style critical symposium on Mooney’s work, hosted at Crooked Timber (crookedtimber.org). Eight contributors offered reviews, discussion and critical commentary. And Mooney responded to his critics. Now the event is a book, available here in print for the first time and online (for free download at parlorpress.com). Contributors JOHN QUIGGIN is a Federation Fellow in economics and political science at the University of Queensland. He is prominent both as an academic economist and as a commentator on public policy. HENRY FARRELL is assistant professor in the Center for International Science and Technology Policy of the Elliott School of International Affairs, and the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. TED