| THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE Chris Mooney New York: Basic Books, August 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-465-04675-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-465-04675-4 | 342p. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Page 112: | "(Asked to comment on the study, Syngenta's Ford countered that 'other studies by independent scientists find no effect of atrazine on frogs,' citing two examples." |
| It is perhaps the only serious problem in the book that Mooney does not cite these two examples (assuming they do exist). |
| Page 132: | "Perfectly "sound" dietary science has been effectively censored thanks to a concerted political campaign to discredit it." |
| Here, the quotation marks are a mistake since the context shows this particular science to be genuinely sound. |
| Page 150: | "Yet as I learned from interviewing them, NAS report authors repudiate such an interpretation." |
| Missing comma: S/B "Yet, as I learned". |
| Page 183: | "All of the antievolutionist action today is happening at the state and local level." |
| S/B "state and local levels". |
| Page 224: | "But in fact, that is what it had uncovered." |
| Missing comma: S/B "But, in fact,". |
| Page 231: | "...took a philosophical outlook on being called a 'prostitute' and his general controversial standing in the scientific community." |
| S/B "his generally controversial standing". |
| Page 240: | "...to reduce the spread of HIV among (and by) intravenous drug users." |
| Parenthetical phrase is not needed. |
| Page 248: | "Indeed, it appears to be actually underway." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
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