Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government Industry and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain

A passionate minutely informed and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today―a clarion call to action that concerns us all.―Oliver Sacks M.D. author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The American public is suffering from a rampage against reason by special interests in government commerce and the faith industry. In Junk Science Dan Agin offers an overdue indictment of the groups that twist science for their own gain.. Provocative comprehensive and hard-hitting Agin argues from the center that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of people who consciously distort the publics understanding of the real world. With entertaining candidness he reveals the data faking reality ignoring fear mongering and outright lying that contribute to intentionally manufactured public ignorance. Agin outs the factions twisting scientific data to maintain riches and power in sections including:. -- Buyer Beware (genetically modified foods aging and tobacco companies)-- Medical Follies (chiropractics health care talk therapy)-- Poison and Bombs in the Greenhouse (pollution warfare global warming)-- Religion Embryos and Cloning-- Genes Behavior and Race. We already pay a heavy price for many groups conscious manipulation of the publics understanding of science and Junk Science arms us with understanding cutting through the fabric of lies and setting the record straight.. Agin is one angry empiricist...focused extremely articulate skilled in debate and above all dedicated only to what can be experienced through the senses and duplicated in the laboratory.--Chicago Sun-Times. An eye- and brain-opener fraught with insight and plenty of astute observations and illustrative cases-in-point.--The San Diego Union-Tribune