Searching for Science Policy (Hardcover)

Introduction: What are the Uses and Misuses of Science? Part 1: Policy Uses and Misuses of Science 1. How to Make Millions: Promoting Bad Statistics 2. Exposing Junk Science.com: The Case of the MIT “Study” on the Status of Women 3. American Distortion of Dutch Drug Statistics 4. Science in A Civil Action Part 2: Searching for Science Policy 5. The Use and Abuse of Science in Drug Abuse Control Policy 6. Social Science Findings and the “Family Wars” 7. Environmental Cancer 8. Judicial Fictions: The Supreme Court’s Quest for Good Science