Searching for science policy / Jonathan B. Imber, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imber, Jonathan B., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Congresses.

Policy sciences.

Science and state--Congresses.

Science and state.

Social policy--Congresses.

Social policy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 120 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? / Jonathan B. Imber vii

Part 1 Policy Uses and Misuses of Science

1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics / Joel Best 3

2. Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT "Study" on the Status of Women / Judith Kleinfeld 15

3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics / Robert J. MacCoun 31

4. Science in A Civil Action / Allan Mazur 39

Part 2 Searching for Science Policy

5. The Use and Abuse of Science in Drug Abuse Control Policy / Mark A. R. Kleiman 51

6. Social Science Findings and the "Family Wars" / Norval Glenn 67

7. Environmental Cancer / Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter 83

8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court's Quest for Good Science / Sheila Jasanoff 97.

Notes:

"The chapters of this volume originated in a conference entitled 'The use and misuses of science in public discourse' held at Boston University on April 1 and 2, 2000"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765801639

OCLC:

50269655