America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy

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December 27, 2011 2:27 PM
by Soulskill

America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Here's a good article about how playing politics with science puts our country at risk — a review of Shawn Otto's book Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America. Today's policy-makers, Otto shows, are increasingly unwilling to pursue many of the remedies science presents. They take one of two routes: deny the science, or pretend the problems don't exist."

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