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SCIENCE ON THE VERGE

A crisis looms over the scientific enterprise. Not a day passes without news of
retractions, failed replications, fraudulent peer reviews, or misinformed science-

THE based policies. The social implications are


enormous, yet this crisis has remained

RIGHTFUL largely uncharted — until now.

Praise for this provocative new volume

PLACE in The Rightful Place of Science series:

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“ Wow. This penetrating, frightening, provocative,
and irrefutable view of the debasing of science
cuts to—and through—the bone. Every producer,

SCIENCE consumer, and believer of ‘science’ should read


this book, whether interested in pesticides, GMOs,
nuclear power, climate change, psychology,
or fiscal policy.”
This book series
— Professor Philip B. Stark, Associate Dean, Division of Mathe-
from the Consortium matical and Physical Sciences, University of California Berkeley

for Science, Policy & “ A major contribution, this book approaches the ISBN
9780
6925
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Outcomes explores the 8
on the entanglement of science, policy, and ethics.”
complex inter ac tions — Professor Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne

among science,
“ An uncomfortable but vital diagnosis of the trouble with science. It describes valuable efforts by
technology, politics, scientists to heal themselves, including movements for open access and social responsibility,
but is clear about the limits of these endeavors. This book is certainly critical, but it is resolutely
and society. constructive.”
— Professor Jack Stilgoe, Senior Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

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“ At last someone has said out loud that the emperor has no clothes. This is a compelling read, with
Science on the Verge
pace, eloquence, and irony.”
and other series titles. — Professor Emeritus Timothy Allen, University of Wisconsin–Madison

For more information about


The Rightful Place of Science, Consortium for Science,
visit www.cspo.org. Policy & Outcomes

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