interview topics

[realthog]

I heard last night from Michio Kaku with his list of topics we're likely to cover when he interviews me tonight about my book Corrupted Science for his radio programme Science Fantastic:

1) Fraudulent Scientists

          Piltdown man

          Tobacco lobby

          South Korean clone experiments

 

2) Seeing what they wanted to see

          Pons and Fleishman

 

3) Military Madness

          CIA’s investigation into occult

 

4) The one true book

          Creationism

 

5) Ideology trumps science

          Lysenko, Hitler

 

 

6) The political corruption of science

          Bush’s policies

That's quite a range of stuff to discuss, so my guess is we won't cover all of it. Still, it'll be fun trying.

Now to spend the day swotting . . .

Comments

[tomaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, do you think you could broaden the subject matter a tad? :)
#6 could be a goddam series, a year of Frontline or Nova.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it hasn't been.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

In the event we got through only about half the topics, so didn't even get to #6. Luckily, though, a caller raised the topic of global warming so I was able to fit in some indication that political corruption of science is not just something that happens overseas. Michio was pretty strong on the subject too.

[tomaq.livejournal.com]

You could almost write a book on it. (Heyyy...)