The Doomsday Lobby Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors /

• Main Author: Bennett, James T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Political science.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Popular Science, general.; Political Science.

From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Benn...

Table of Contents:

• and Overview
• American Science before the Bomb
• Dr. Bush Fathers a Foundation
• Oh Sputnik! How the Educationists Prospered from a Russian Satellite
• To Mars! (But Why?)
• The Chicken Littles of Big Science; or, Here Come the Killer Asteroids!
• Conclusion: The Only Way to Keep the Sky from Falling Is….