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Bogus Science
Bogus Science

Bogus Science

How Scare Politics Robs Voters, Corrupts Research and Poisons Minds

POLITICAL SCIENCE

288 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Cloth, EPUB

Cloth, $26.95 (US $26.95) (CA $35.95)

Publication Date: July 2021

ISBN 9781645720300

Rights: WOR

Republic Book Publishers (Jul 2021)

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Overview

The good name of true science, which has transformed the world we live in marvelous ways over the last 200 years, has been hijacked for several decades by politicians seeking to employ science and scientists in support of dubious political goals. They have used their power over grants to universities and their power over federal regulatory agencies and United Nations initiatives to this end.
Bogus Science examines a series of scares perpetrated by American politicians in collaboration with the UN over the last fifty years: DDT, acid rain, the "ozone hole" and of course "global warming." These scares have cost the world trillions of dollars and all have been debunked by serious scientists.
Author George Melloan argues that protection of the environment is a goal that all rational people share, and the incredible advance of genuine science has brought about great strides in creating a cleaner, healthier, and safer human environment in the course of modern history. But that noble cause has been hijacked by zealots motivated by other impulses, which in the extreme derive from what some social philosophers describe as anti-humanism. "Environmentalist" claims, even when deceptive, are particularly seductive to young people seeking meaning in their lives. And sure enough, zealots have brought their influence to bear on millions of schoolchildren who have been told that their lives will be cut short if they disregard the warnings of modern Pied Pipers.
While discussing the power politicians have over science, Melloan looks into the growing scandal in science about a lack of reproducibility of experiments or studies purporting to be "scientific." Real scientists know that if an experiment or a computer model is to be deemed valid, the same methodology employed by other scientists must achieve the same result. The absence of this, often in studies printed in professional journals, is shocking to many scientists.

Author Biography

George Melloan had a career as a writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal. Starting in the Journal’s Page One department in 1962, as an editor and rewrite specialist, Melloan would then spend 4 years as a foreign correspondent in London (1966-1970). In 1970, he joined the editorial page in New York and became deputy editor in 1973. By 1990, he was writing editorials and columns for both the Journal’s foreign and domestic editions, as well as being responsible for the Journal’s overseas editorial pages. As a journalist, Melloan has covered everything from the auto industry to international news. He retired from the Journal in 2006.George Melloan is the author of three books: The Great Money Binge, Spending Our Way to Socialism (2009, Simon & Schuster), When the New Deal Came to Town (2016, Simon & Schuster), and Free People, Free Markets (2017, Encounter Books).Mr. Melloan has been a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and the Dutch Treat Club. He was winner of the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business and financial journalism, the Daily Gleaner award of the Inter American Press Association, and the American Spectator’s Barbara Olson award for excellence and independence in journalism. He continues to write op-eds and book reviews for the Journal. His home is in Westfield, N.J.

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