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- catalog abstract ""The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine what kind of scientific research will be funded. Searching for Science Policy offers innovative ways of thinking about how the rhetoric and practice of science operates in various institutional contexts."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12650370.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine what kind of scientific research will be funded. Searching for Science Policy offers innovative ways of thinking about how the rhetoric and practice of science operates in various institutional contexts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? / Jonathan B. Imber -- pt. 1. Policy Uses and Misuses of Science. 1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics / Joel Best. 2. Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT "Study" on the Status of Women / Judith Kleinfeld. 3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics / Robert J. MacCoun. 4. Science in A Civil Action / Allan Mazur -- pt. 2. Searching for Science Policy. 5. The Use and Abuse of Science in Drug Abuse Control Policy / Mark A.R. Kleiman. 6. Social Science Findings and the "Family Wars" / Norval Glenn. 7. Environmental Cancer / Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter. 8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court's Quest for Good Science / Sheila Jasanoff.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 120 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0765801639 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "320/.6 21".
- catalog subject "H97 .S4 2002".
- catalog subject "Policy sciences Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Public Policy".
- catalog subject "Science and state Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Science".
- catalog subject "Social policy Congresses.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? / Jonathan B. Imber -- pt. 1. Policy Uses and Misuses of Science. 1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics / Joel Best. 2. Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT "Study" on the Status of Women / Judith Kleinfeld. 3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics / Robert J. MacCoun. 4. Science in A Civil Action / Allan Mazur -- pt. 2. Searching for Science Policy. 5. The Use and Abuse of Science in Drug Abuse Control Policy / Mark A.R. Kleiman. 6. Social Science Findings and the "Family Wars" / Norval Glenn. 7. Environmental Cancer / Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter. 8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court's Quest for Good Science / Sheila Jasanoff.".
- catalog title "Searching for science policy / Jonathan B. Imber, editor.".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "Congresses".
- catalog type "text".