Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner

Book Overview

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.

Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047141
• ISBN13: 9780674047143
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"