Science, Money & Politics - Political Triumph & Ethical Erosion

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Each year, Congress appropriates billions of dollars for scientific research. And each year, scientists complain of insufficient funding and lobby (usually successfully) for more. Who receives the money, and the tactics they use to get it, are explored in this hard-hitting, meticulously documented expose by veteran journalist Daniel S. Greenberg. From the end of World War II to 2001, and from medical research to particle physics, Greenberg reveals the little-known but all-pervasive links among science, money, and politics in the United States. He takes us behind closed doors in Washington, drawing on archival research as well as astonishingly frank and revealing interviews with presidential science advisers, congressional and White House staffers, and elected officials. Along the way we encounter some startling revelations. We learn about exaggerated claims of disease cures, how politicians supportive of medical research are rewarded with buildings named for them at the National Institutes of Health, why Ronald Reagan's science advisers remained silent, even though they knew that false claims were being made for a scientific breakthrough in the Star Wars missile-defense program, and how, even as research lagged in the expiring USSR, leading American scientists warned Congress of Soviet scientific superiority--and the need for increased U.S. science funding to counter it. Thoroughly documented, engagingly written, and based on decades of investigative reporting, "Science, Money, and Politics" blows the whistle on the scientists, politicians, and government officials who sacrifice ethics--and science itself--for money.