The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Politically Incorrect Guides 1st Edition by Tom Bethell ISBN 089526031X 9780895260314

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Politically Incorrect Guides 1st Edition by Tom Bethell – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 089526031X, 9780895260314

Full download The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Politically Incorrect Guides 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 089526031X

ISBN 13: 9780895260314 

Author:  Tom Bethell 

“If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?” Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell’s entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will be turned off when he attempts to disprove global warming and especially evolution. Throughout the book, Bethell makes questionable claims about subjects as varied as AIDS (“careful U.S. studies had already shown that at least a thousand sexual contacts are needed to achieve heterosexual transmission of the virus”) and extinction (“It is not possible definitely to attribute any given extinction to human activity”), and backs up his arguments with references to the music magazine SPIN and thriller-writer Michael Crichton. Ironically, Bethell ends up proving his own premise by producing a highly politicized account of how liberal intellectuals and unchecked government agencies have created a “white-coated priesthood” whose lust for grant money has driven them to produce fearsome (but in Bethell’s view, false) tales of ozone destruction and AIDS pandemics. In the end, this book is unlikely to sway readers who aren’t already in Bethell’s ideological camp, as any points worthy of discussion get lost in the glut of unsourced claims that populate this latest installment of “The Politically Incorrect Guide” series.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – GLOBAL WARMING
Chapter 2 – YES, MORE NUKES
Chapter 3 – GOOD VIBES
Chapter 4 – “GOOD CHEMISTRY”
Chapter 5 – THE DDT BAN
Chapter 6 – BIODIVERSITY AND ENDANGERED SPECIES
Chapter 7 – AFRICAN AIDS
Chapter 8 – THE FOLLY OF DOLLY
Chapter 9 – THE STEM CELL CHALLENGE TO BIOENGINEERING
Chapter 10 – A MAP TO NOWHERE
Chapter 11 – THE GREAT CANCER ERROR
Chapter 12 – THE ABIDING MYTHS
Chapter 13 – BY CHANCE, OR BY DESIGN?
Chapter 14 – EVOLUTION

People also search for:

the politically incorrect guide to american history pdf
    
the politically incorrect guide books
    
the politically incorrect guide to economics
    
the politically incorrect guide to atheism
    
the politically incorrect guide to american history review
    
the politically incorrect guide to american history book

Tags: Tom Bethell, Politically Incorrect Guide, Science, Politically Incorrect Guides