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Silencing Science | Steven J. Milloy
Outline: Science has been a major contributor to the health and wealth we enjoy today but not everyone is happy about it. Science can get in the way of social and environmental activists, politicians, lawyers, and government regulators who have a political agenda they wish to impose. This book is a tongue-in…
Junk Science Judo | Steven J. Milloy
Outline: Junk science is the manipulation of statistics to promote special policy agenda that have nothing to do with public health and safety. It can be disseminated by special interest groups, social and political activists, businesses seeking to hurt rival companies, and politicians. Unfortunately, many gullible…
Rampant Antismoking Signifies Grave Danger: Materialism Out Of Control | Vincent-Riccardo Di Pierri, PhD
Outline: The late-1960’s/early-1970’s marked a crucial turning point in the perspective of public officialdom, shifting from the role of public servants to that of public controllers. Since this time, ideological materialism (e.g., behaviorism, humanism) has been growing in domination of key social…
A Critique of Nicotine Addiction | Hanan Frenk, Reuven Dar, Dept. of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Outline: Nicotine is almost universally believed to be the major factor that motivates smoking and impedes cessation. Authorities such as the Surgeon General of the USA and the Royal College of Physicians in the UK have declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. This book is a critique of…
Science Without Sense | Steven J. Milloy
Outline: "This is a recipe book for the public health superstar wanna-be," says Milloy. "It has everything you need to know about how to create a risk that will electrify the public, how to reach the pantheon of public health and how to land those big fat research grants from the federal government…
Polluted Science | Michael Fumento
Outline: Polluted Science is a critical study of the EPA's decision in 1997 to tighten national standards for measuring air quality. Michael Fumento examines the standards used by the EPA and the benefits the EPA hoped to reap by their utlilization.
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine | Sally L. Satel
Outline: Drawing on a wealth of information, much of it never before revealed, PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness — including victimology, multiculturalism, and the rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy —are allowed to enter…
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom | Peter William Huber
Outline: Forbes magazine columnist Huber uncovers another cost of science illiteracy in the US: the unwarranted authority of "junk science" as legal testimony in our litigious society. This anecdotal history of science in the service of liability lawyers — the "expert witness" industry…
Addiction is a Choice | Jeffrey Schaler, Ph.D.
Outline: Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to successfully battle its detrimental effects on society. The author explains why current policies are ineffective and how they fail to cure the "problem.&…
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