Science for Sale

How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

David L. Lewis

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781510743106
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628738728
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Science & Technology Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: "You know you're going to be fired for this, don't you?" "I know, " Dr. Lewis replied, "I just hope to stay out of prison." Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis's commentary in Nature, titled "EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics." Three years later, and thirty years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in Washington to receive a Science Achievement Award from Administrator Carol Browner for his second article in Nature. By then, EPA had transferred Dr. Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination—the Agency's only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet.The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best. This book is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis's experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
• 1. Ask Your Dentist
• 2. Ask Your Endoscopy Clinic
• 3. Ask Your Garden Center
• 4. Sludge Magic
• 5. Black Magic
• 6. Holy Science
• 7. Brian Deer—Hero or Hoax?
• 8. The GMC Formula
• 9. Government Domination of Science
• 10. Institutional Research Misconduct
• 11. The Nuremberg Code
• 12. Changing Direction
• Epilogue
• President John F. Kennedy’s Legacy
• About the Author
• Afterword
• Appendix I Ten Myths about Biosolids
• Appendix II Biosolids Cadmium Data Pre- and Post-
• Appendix III Some Things Never Change
• Appendix IV Sludge Magic versus Native American Beliefs
• Appendix V Senate Testimony Prepared by David Lewis
• Appendix VI Senate Testimony Prepared by Andy McElmurray
• Appendix VII The Nuremberg Code
• Chapter Notes
• Index