LOOKING for a FIGHT IS THERE A Republican War on Science?

LOOKING for a FIGHT IS THERE A Republican War on Science? responses to chris mooney by ted barlow daniel davies henry farrell steve fuller kieran healy john holbo tim lambert john quiggin & chris mooney a Crooked Timber book event Science and Politics “Man, you guys worked me hard . . .” —Chris Mooney From stem cell research to intelligent design to global warming, po-litical 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 sci-ence 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, discus- sion 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). Glassbead Books Edited by John Holbo Parlor Press 816 Robinson Street West Lafayette, IN 47906 www.parlorpress.com S A N: 2 5 4 – 8 8 7 9 ISBN 1-932559-92-2 Glassbead Books John Holbo, Editor Looking For a Fight Is There a Republican War on Science? Edited by John Holbo a Crooked Timber book event Parlor Press West Lafayette, Indiana www.parlorpress.com Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 Printed in the United States of America © 2006 by Parlor Press. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License, with no prejudice to any material quoted from The Republican War on Science or other texts under fair use principles. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecom-mons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Com-mons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Looking for a fight : is there a Republican war on science? / edited by John Holbo. p. cm. -- (Glassbead books) “A Crooked timber book event.” ISBN 1-932559-91-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-92-2 (adobe ebook) 1. Science and state--United States. 2. Republicanism--United States. I. Holbo, John, 1967- Q127.U6L66 2006 509.7309’051--dc22 2006028922 The book you are holding—if you are holding a book—is available as a free PDF download. Visit http://www.parlorpress.com This book was designed and edited by John Holbo. Text is set in 11 point Adobe Garamond Pro. and printed on acid-free paper. Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paper and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com or through online and brick-and mor-tar bookstores. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafay-ette, Indiana, 47906, or email editor@parlorpress.com. ... - tailieumienphi.vn