Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
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"Hero and Whistleblower for the people!" according to Nancy F Holt. This book is for everyone. Scientists, academia, farmers, rural and urban residents need to know how a nationwide waste management program can impact the health of everyone, but especially children. Dr. Davis takes us inside the US Environmental Protection Agency and how the scientists there have been silenced by corporate interests by political mandates to make all environmenta. Very Important Book Maddie I have worked for the federal government for many years and, unfortunately, what the author says is consistent with my own experience. I was shocked to see the level of dishonesty and corruption in the way the government conducts and funds "science." While I have great faith in the scientific method when practiced correctly, I have come to have very little faith in the integrity. "Sludge Magic Exposed" according to Caroline S.. If you still believe that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Agriculture(USDA) protect human health and the environment and promote sustainable farming based on preserving natural resources--as both claim in their missions statements-- SCIENCE FOR SALE will finally disabuse you of that notion.As the author explains in Chapters Sludge Magic Exposed If you still believe that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Agriculture(USDA) protect human health and the environment and promote sustainable farming based on preserving natural resources--as both claim in their missions statements-- SCIENCE FOR SALE will finally disabuse you of that notion.As the author explains in Chapters 3-5 to spread mil. -5 to spread mil
Lewis' commentary in Nature, titled "EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics". Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination - the Agency's only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. Three years later, and 30 years after Dr. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to de