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Overview

As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science. Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and a trickster's wit; an engineering professor who exposes the myths and dangers of fracking; a forensic geneticist who traces children stolen by the military in El Salvador; a sociologist who investigates the lure and threat of mass surveillance; a radical psychologist who confronts psychiatry's dangerous power; and a young marine biologist who risks her career to defend science and democracy. Who controls science and at what cost to the earth and its inhabitants? Can we change? This is unspun science for dangerous times.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781771131247
  • ISBN-10: 1771131241
  • Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
  • Publish Date: September 2014
  • Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.99 x 0.64 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
  • Page Count: 255

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