No, it isn’t about climate change, but my dad could be excused for thinking any book about the politicization of science must be about conservatives.
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At its core, Galileo’s Middle Finger is about what happens when science and dogma collide — specifically, what happens when science makes a claim that doesn’t fit into an activist community’s accepted worldview. And many of Dreger’s most interesting, explosive examples of this phenomenon involve liberals, not conservatives, fighting tooth and nail against open scientific inquiry.
Jesse Singal „Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals”
(o książce: Alice Dreger „Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science”)