oldie but goodie
Apr. 22nd, 2008 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogWell, golly! I've just discovered that, in the closing minutes (literally) of last year, Angela Gunn of the USA Today blog Tech_Space posted her Best Science Books of 2007 list, and among the nine books there is my own Corrupted Science. I am, naturally, very, very pleased!
Gunn gives the book a good capsule review, too:
. . . this looked . . . like one of those bargain throwaways you see at Barnes and Noble -- until you remember how much fun Grant's 2006 Discarded Science was and scoop it up in search of chewy anecdotal goodness. The tone this time is considerably darker . . . His comparison of the current administration's assault on scientific truth and inquiry goes even further than Christopher Mooney's 2005 The Republican War on Science -- but then again the administration's had two more years to run amuck.
For the rest, see http://blogs.usatoday.com/techspace/2007/12/closing-the-boo.html. This is like finding an unopened Christmas present!
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Date: 2008-04-22 07:50 pm (UTC)To be fair, this is probably a product of her efforts. In among all the Disney Fun, etc., on her list was USA Today. It's not too much of a stretch to reckon that the copy sent to the newspaper made its way to the blogger.
It looks to be a pretty good blog, incidentally. I'm planning to go bacvk for a rootle through it when I have a bit more leisure.