RESCUING SCIENCE FROM POLITICS: REGULATION AND THE DISTORTION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; ED. BY WENDY WAGNER

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can be abused by special interests to intrude on the way scientists conduct research. The high stakes and adversarial features of regulation create the worst possible climate for the honest production and use of science especially by those who will ultimately bear the cost of the resulting regulatory standards. Yet an in-depth exploration of the ways in which dominant interest groups distort the available science to support their positions has received little attention in the academic or popular literature. The book begins by establishing non-controversial principles of good scientific practice. These principles then serve as the benchmark against which each chapter author compares how science is misused in a specific regulatory setting and assist in isolating problems in the integration of science by the regulatory process. Contents......Page 6 About the Contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 18 Prologue......Page 20 Introduction......Page 26 FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE......Page 46 Defending Clean Science from Dirty Attacks by Special Interests......Page 49 Basic Science at Risk: Protecting the Independence of Research......Page 71 Publication Bias, Data Ownership, and the Funding Effect in Science: Threats to the Integrity of Biomedical Research......Page 86 Science and Subpoenas......Page 111 TRANSPARENCY AND HONESTY......Page 124 The Data Wars, Adaptive Management, and the Irony of “Sound Science”......Page 128 The Dual Legacy of......Page 145 Using Science in a Political World: The Importance of Transparency in Natural Resource Regulation......Page 168 Transforming Science into Law......Page 190 Two Models for Scientific Transparency in Environmental Law......Page 218 A PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCIENCE......Page 240 Politicizing Peer Review: The Scientific Perspective......Page 244 Politicizing Peer Review: The Legal Perspective......Page 263 TheGovernment Role in Scientific Research: Who Should Bridge the Data Gap in Chemical Regulation?......Page 280 RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION......Page 304 Conclusion......Page 306 Index......Page 324 Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can be abused by special interests to intrude on the way scientists conduct research. The high stakes and adversarial features of regulation create the worst possible climate for the honest production and use of science especially by those who will ultimately bear the cost of the resulting regulatory standards. Yet an in-depth exploration of the ways in which dominant interest groups distort the available science to support their positions has received little attention in the academic or popular literature. The book begins by establishing non-controversial principles of good scientific practice. These principles then serve as the benchmark against which each chapter author compares how science is misused in a specific regulatory setting and assist in isolating problems in the integration of science by the regulatory process. - Publisher Concern about the corruption of science by special interests is widespread at the highest levels of academia and elite institutions. This book examines the troublesome trends that threaten scientists and their research in the areas of environmental quality, protection of natural resources, drug and food safety, and global climate change. This book opens with four chapters that explain how interested parties have abused the legal system to threaten scientific independence, undermine the objectivity and therefore the integrity of research, and, in some cases, threaten the careers of individual scientists.

this Book Examines How Dominant Interest Groups Manipulate The Available Science To Support Their Positions.