The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science
by Bethell, TomFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-30
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary
Covers subjects spanning evolution, stem cell research, abortion, HIV/AIDS, global warming, and cloning to help you tune up your balony detector to expose the liberal, anti-religious propaganda we're being fed.
Author Biography
Tom Bethell is a senior editor at the American Spectator. He has contributed to many publications, including the New York Times magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Crisis, and National Review. He writes often on science. Tom Wolfe has called Bethell "one of our most brilliant essayists." Bethell was born and raised in England and graduated from Oxford University in 1962 with a degree in philosophy, physiology, and psychology. He lives in Washington D.C.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the lures of politics | |
| Global warming | p. 1 |
| Yes, more nukes | p. 19 |
| Good vibes : the virtue of radiation | p. 39 |
| "Good chemistry" | p. 57 |
| The DDT ban | p. 73 |
| Biodiversity and endangered species | p. 87 |
| African AIDS : a political epidemic | p. 105 |
| The folly of dolly : cloning and its discontents | p. 123 |
| The stem cell challenge to bioengineering | p. 131 |
| A map to nowhere | p. 147 |
| The great cancer error | p. 165 |
| The abiding myths : flat earth and warfare between science and religion | p. 181 |
| By chance, or by design? | p. 199 |
| Evolution : the missing evidence | p. 215 |
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