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ROGER PIELKE JR.
With Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World, climatologist Michael E. Mann and virologist Peter J. Hotez have written an important book. When future historians look back at the early twenty-first century and document the causes and consequences of the intense politicization of the U.S. scientific community, Science Under Siege (SUS) will be a core reading.
The central argument of the book is apocalyptic.
“The future of humankind and the health of our planet now depend on surmounting the dark forces of antiscience” (p. 3)
“Unless we find a way to overcome antiscience, humankind will face its gravest threat yet – the collapse of civilization as we know it.” (p. 27)
“Antiscience,” they tell us, is “politically and ideologically motivated opposition to any science that threatens powerful special interests and their political agenda” (p. 2).
Mann and Hotez define opposition specifically—Republicans:
The fact that antiscience has been embraced so fully by one of the two major parties is a grave concern. Today’s Republican Party is an authoritarian, anti-democratic political entity . . . we face a stark realty (sic): the Republican Party now represents a very real threat to human civilization itself.
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