Book-signing for "The Republican War on Science" Wednesday 9/13

[Updated below.]

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science will be at a book-signing event Wednesday, September 13, at 7pm at Powell's Technical Books 33 NW Park Ave., Portland OR.

Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since the Eisenhower administration.

In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized manner; spun or distorted to fit the speaker’s agenda; or, when they’re too inconvenient, ignored entirely. On a broad array of issues—stem cell research, climate change, abstinence education, mercury pollution, and many others—the Bush administration’s positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus.

In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney tied together the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.

For an excerpt from the book, click here.

Cross-posted at Preemptive Karma.

Update: Mooney will also be speaking Monday the 18th at 7:30 at Reed College, Eliot Hall chapel. Thanks to Paul for passing that along.