| UNDERMINING SCIENCE Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration Seth Shulman Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-520-24702-4 | ||||
| ISBN 0-520-24702-7 | 202pp. | HC | $? | |
| Page 17: | "The popular press, with its penchant for "dissenting" voices, often obscures just how robust this consensus is." |
| Misuse of quotation marks, and clumsy writing: S/B "seeking out dissenting voices". |
| Page 120: | "A recognized expert in genome analysis and the study of genome variation, his research has furthered world wide scientific understanding on numerous genetic disorders..." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "he has done research that". |
| Page 131: | "To the extent that controversy exists about human embryonic stem cells—and it does at least in the mind of George W. Bush—it derives from the fact that, as currently practiced, the process of retrieving them requires the destruction of the blastocysts they come from, that is, from fertilized human eggs." |
| Wrong preposition: S/B "that is, of". |
| Page 140: | "...but the effort was struck down in the 1982 court decision cited above." |
| This is a misstatement. It refers to page 139; but the 1982 court decision is not cited there, only quoted: "As one eloquently worded 1982 court verdict put it." As cited in 187n47, it is McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education (1982) 529 F. Supp. 1255, 50 U.S. Law Week 2412 |
| Page 144: | "In its symbolism, Bush's off-handed comments to reporters perfectly summed up his administration's ongoing and concerted effort to undermine science." |
| Number error: S/B "their". |
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