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Author_Robert O. Schneider
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Climate Change
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Evolution-Creation Debate
Genetics
Hydraulic Fracturing
Pandemics
Politics
Public Policy
Science Denial
Scientific Method
Space Race
Vaccine Debate
Product details
- ISBN 9781440859373
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explains why science and politics collide, why this is an especially critical problem at this precise time in U.S. history, and what should be done to ensure that science and politics coincide.
The United States is waging a political war against science, and the stakes are increasing. When it comes to areas in which science and politics must interact, such as genetics, climate, and energy, political interests are always pushing to spin the relevant science, but this becomes problematic when Americans abandon rationality for ideology or misinformation manufactured to confuse and persuade them.
In a series of five contemporary examples, When Science and Politics Collide: The Public Interest at Risk makes the case that none of the ways in which science and politics currently communicate serve the public interest and that some of them actually result in great harm. It explains that, whether about climate change, vaccines, pandemics, or fracking, experimentally proven and reproducible data and evidence can save lives—and poor, politically motivated policies can doom them. The book concludes with recommendations for creating a more perfect union between scientific facts and political agendas.
Robert O. Schneider, PhD (political science), is professor of public administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is author of Managing the Climate Crisis: Assessing our Risks, Options, and Prospects.
