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Book Jacket SCIENCE LEFT BEHIND
Feel-good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
ALEX B. BEREZOW AND HANK CAMPBELL
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A brash polemic that explains the origins of—and skewers—the left's dangerous, unscientific claims about food, vaccines, and energy—and shows how resistance to scientific progress holds us back

As pundits and political writers never miss a chance to remind us, evolution, stem cells, and climate change comprise the trifecta of conservative sins against science. Yet liberals have pet fallacies of their own. Aversion to nuclear power, animal research, and vaccines come naturally to many progressives, supported by little more than junk science and wishful thinking.

Now for the first time, science writers Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn back the curtain on the left's fear of science. As Science Left Behind reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation. The results: public health crises, damaging and misguided policies, and worst of all, a new culture war over basic scientific facts—in which the left is just as culpable as the right.

Alex B. Berezow is the editor of RealClearScience. His work has appeared on CNN, and in USA Today and Forbes, among other publications. In 2010, he earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington.
Hank Campbell is the founder and editor of Science 2.0, the world's largest independent science communication community. Prior to that, he was a senior executive at three physics software companies. He graduated from Duquesne University and was formerly a U.S. Army officer.

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ISBN 978-1610391641
Pub date: 09/11/12
Price: $26.99/30.00 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
320 pages
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Politics, Science
Selling Territory: W
Rights: British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio, and Electronic rights: PublicAffairs
First Serial and Performance rights: The Wiley Agency

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ISBN 978-1-61039-321-8
Pub date: 02/04/14
Price: $15.99/18.50 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
320 pages
Politics, Science
Selling Territory: W
Pub history: 978-1-61039-164-1

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