Science left behind : feel-good fallacies and the rise of the anti-scientific left / Alex Berezow, Hank Campbell.

New York : PublicAffairs, [2012], ©2012.

viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

1st ed.

What's a progressive? -- The state of the "pro-science" union -- Organic food: the holy eucharist of environmentalism -- Food fight! -- Crappy conservation and clean energy chaos -- Sunshine days and flower power -- Bring on the vaccines and Viagra -- PETA: professional experimenters testing on animals -- Welcome to the anti-Renaissance -- Boys have wee-wees and girls have hoo-hoos -- Education and its discontents -- The death of science journalism -- False equivalence -- The war on excellence -- Twelve issues for 2012 and beyond -- Closing arguments: an appeal to scientific reasoning.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-292) and index.