Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674047143)

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.

Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards. Scientists can find their research blocked, or find themselves threatened with financial ruin. Corporations, plaintiff attorneys, think tanks, even government agencies have been caught suppressing or distorting research on the safety of chemical products.

With alarming stories drawn from the public record, McGarity and Wagner describe how advocates attempt to bend science or "spin" findings. They reveal an immense range of tools available to shrewd partisans determined to manipulate research.

Bending Science exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health.

Author: Thomas O. McGarity, Wendy E. Wagner
ISBN-10: 0674047141
ISBN-13: 9780674047143
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.10d