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It is important to know that scientists with 'good credentials' have placed their politics before the scientific data to gain ends that cannot be justified by the information available. It is important because we are making decisions that will effect the future of the world based on distortions if not outright falsification of data.
The depth of the research in this book appears to be good. The threads that weave to make the false impressions presented as fact were followed in detail and reported clearly.
Everyone in Congress and their staffs should read it. Likely only those who want to make good choices based on good information will do so. I hope there are politicians in both parties who want to do that.
This book is written in a way that allows you to see the people in your mind and become attached to them in their specal time and place. The pain behind the breast bone that rises with longing for the characters in a story to have joy after sorrow is strong at the end of this book. It may be fiction, but it feels like real people are living in these words.
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
central coast reader, January 23, 2011
It is important to know that scientists with 'good credentials' have placed their politics before the scientific data to gain ends that cannot be justified by the information available. It is important because we are making decisions that will effect the future of the world based on distortions if not outright falsification of data.The depth of the research in this book appears to be good. The threads that weave to make the false impressions presented as fact were followed in detail and reported clearly.
Everyone in Congress and their staffs should read it. Likely only those who want to make good choices based on good information will do so. I hope there are politicians in both parties who want to do that.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
central coast reader, January 23, 2011
This book is written in a way that allows you to see the people in your mind and become attached to them in their specal time and place. The pain behind the breast bone that rises with longing for the characters in a story to have joy after sorrow is strong at the end of this book. It may be fiction, but it feels like real people are living in these words.