| SCIENCE LEFT BEHIND Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left Alex B. Berezow Hank Campbell New York: PublicAffairs, September 2012 |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-61039-164-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-61039-164-0 | 303pp. | HC/GSI | $26.99 | |
| Introduction: The Progressive War on Spoons | 1 | |
| ONE | What's a Progressive? | 9 |
| They're Not Liberals, But They Think They Are | ||
| TWO | The State of the "Pro-Science" Union | 21 |
| How Does the Obama Administration Measure Up? | ||
| THREE | Organic Food: The Holy Eucharist of Environmentalism | 39 |
| Don't But that $4 Banana | ||
| FOUR | Food Fight! | 57 |
| Don't Walk to the Store, Drive—If you Love the Environment | ||
| FIVE | Crappy Conservation and Clean Energy Chaos | 69 |
| How Progressives Killed your Toilet | ||
| SIX | Sunshine Days and Flower Power | 89 |
| The Fetish for Solar and Priuses | ||
| SEVEN | Bring on the Vaccines and Viagra | 109 |
| "Unnatural" Products Can Be Amazing | ||
| EIGHT | PETA: Professional Experimenters Testing on Animals | 125 |
| Don't Make Us Come Down There and Objectify Women | ||
| NINE | Welcome To the Anti-Renaissance | 141 |
| Progressive Europe Is Scientifically Backward | ||
| TEN | Boys Have Wee-Wees and Girls Have Hoo-Hoos | 161 |
| Science Must Investigate Uncomfortable Issues | ||
| ELEVEN | Education and its Discontents | 177 |
| It Stinks Being Asian in a Progressive World | ||
| TWELVE | The Death of Science Journalism | 195 |
| And How To Resurrect It | ||
| THIRTEEN | False Equivalence | 209 |
| The Faulty Logic Behind Fake Logical Arguments | ||
| FOURTEEN | The War on Excellence | 225 |
| Science Advances Cannot Be Framed Through Social Justice Issues | ||
| FIFTEEN | Twelve Issues for 2012 and Beyond | 239 |
| The Science That Really Matters | ||
| CONCLUSION | Closing Arguments: An Appeal to Scientific Reasoning | 257 |
| Acknowledgements | 261 | |
| Notes | 263 | |
| Index | 293 | |
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