Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?

Edited by John HolboGlassbead Books A Crooked Timber Book Event Information and Pricing 978-1-932559-91-0 (paperback, $11.00); 978-1-932559-92-7 (PDF, free download) 104 pages Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book “Man, you guys worked me hard . . . ”—Chris Mooney From stem cell research to intelligent design to global warming, political conflict over science is heating up. In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles. And, again and again, those obstacles have arisen on the right—from the Bush administration, from coalitions of Republicans and from individually powerful Republicans. As the new paperback edition announces, Mooney’s book, “brings this whole story together for the first time, weaving the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and