presents

Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking

edited by Michael Gough

contrib. by William Happer, Henry I. Miller, Joseph P. Martino, S. Safe, Bruce N. Ames, Lois Swirsky Gold, Bernard Leonard Cohen, Patrick J. Michaels, Robert Nilsson, Roger Bate and S. Fred Singer

This is a book published by the Hoover Institution Press at Stanford in 2003.

PDF files for the various sections of the book are available on Hoover's website, and are linked to here in the order they appear in the book.

• Foreword (pp. vii-ix)
• Contributors (pp. xi-xxi)
• Introduction: Science, Risks, and Politics by Michael Gough (pp. 1-25)
• 1: Harmful Politicization of Science by William Happer (pp. 27-48)
• 2: The Corrosive Effects of Politicized Regulation of Science and Technology by Henry I. Miller (pp. 49-71)
• 3: Science and Public Policy by Joseph P. Martino (pp. 73-89)
• 4: Endocrine Disruptors by Stephen Safe (pp. 73-115)
• 5: Cancer Prevention and the Environmental Chemical Distraction by Bruce Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold (pp. 117-142)
• 6: Nuclear Power by Bernard L. Cohen (pp. 143-170)
• 7: Science or Political Science? An Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change by Patrick J. Michaels (pp. 171-192)
• 8: The Political Science of Agent Orange and Dioxin by Michael Gough (pp. 193-225)
• 9: Science and Politics in the Regulation of Chemicals in Sweden by Robert Nilsson (pp. 227-259)
• 10: How Precaution Kills: The Demise of DDT and the Resurgence of Malaria by Roger Bate (pp. 261-282)
• 11: The Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted Political Suppression of Science by S. Fred Singer (pp. 283-297)
• Index (pp. 299-313)

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