The Doomsday Lobby : Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors. 1st ed. 2010

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by James T. Bennett

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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2010

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• Bennett, James T.
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9781441966858 [1441966854]    

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and Overview -- American Science before the Bomb -- Dr. Bush Fathers a Foundation -- Oh Sputnik! How the Educationists Prospered from a Russian Satellite -- To Mars! (But Why?) -- The Chicken Littles of Big Science; or, Here Come the Killer Asteroids! -- Conclusion: The Only Way to Keep the Sky from Falling Is….
From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Bennett offers a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking perspective on political influence in scientific research and its implications for a democratic society. Praise for The Doomsday Lobby "During the Nineteenth Century, almost entirely on private funding, American science grew from practically nothing to world class. Now, however, over fifty percent of American science is funded by the federal government. Dr. Bennett traces the path, "crisis" after "crisis," by which American science became practically an arm of the federal government. His tale is a cautionary one, warning against future "crisis mongers" who would extend the government's already majority control of American science even further. His warning

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