Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 11th, 2005
[Aneuploidy, Book Review, Cancer, Extended Piece, Human Genome Project, Peter Deusberg, PIG Science]Chapters 10 and 11 of Tom Bethell’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science follow two nearly content-less chapters that I discussed in the Chapters 8 and 9 review. In 10 and 11, Bethell introduces his readers to the Human Genome Project (HGP) […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 10th, 2005
[Book Review, Cloning, Extended Piece, PIG Science, Stem Cells]After a deeply troubled chapter, Chapters 8 and 9 of Tom Bethell’s “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” return us at least to discussing science. Here Bethell updates us all on his version of the sciences of cloning and stem-cells. His main argument is that […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 8th, 2005
[Africa, AIDS, Book Review, Extended Piece, Pandemic, PIG Science, Sexuality]After several chapters with at least a modicum of interesting arguments, Tom Bethell, in Chapter 7 of his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, has published something for which he should be ashamed. I cannot find any other way to put it; this chapter […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 6th, 2005
[Biodiversity, Book Review, Edward O. Wilson, Environment, Extended Piece, Extinction, PIG Science]My journey into the depths of Tom Bethell’s “Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” continues with a review of Chapter 6: “Biodiversity and Endangered Species.” Chapters 4 and 5 provided some useful discussion about how we should regulate and debate the use of chemicals […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 6th, 2005
[Book Review, DDT, Dioxin, Extended Piece, PIG Science, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring]Chapters 4 and 5 of Tom Bethell’s “Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” follow a pair of worthwhile reads on Nuclear Power and Radiation’s low-dose effects, and I had high hopes that Bethell would stick to the focused arguments of chapters 2 and 3. […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 1st, 2005
[Book Review, Chernobyl, Energy, Extended Piece, Nuclear Power, Radiation]After Tuesday’s review of Chapter 1, I put off reading the second and third chapters because I dreaded that the science would be as terrible as was chapter 1. Well, the science was nowhere near as bad, though it was presented with a great deal of […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 29th, 2005
[Book Review, Climate Change, Environment, Extended Piece, Global Warming, Peer Review, PIG Science, Politics, Science]As mentioned in previous entries here on Anthonares.net, 2005 has been a banner year for climate science. How unfortunate for Tom Bethell that his first chapter entitled “Global Warming” should come to the forefront now. For, as he mentioned, […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 27th, 2005
[Book Review, Extended Piece, PIG Science, Politics, Science]Browsing the shelves of the science section at Barnes and Noble this weekend, I noticed the book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” by Tom Bethell. I picked it up and scanned the cover, it promised to bust a variety of science myths including global warming, evolution, […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 26th, 2005
[Book Review, Futurism, Radical Evolution, Singularity, Transcendance]I just finished reading “Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human” by Joel Garreau, though I’ve already blogged about portions of it here and here. This entry is a bit of a broad overview […]
Posted in Book Reviews, Opinion on Nov 18th, 2005
[Book Review, Engineering, Failure, Henry Petroski, Living in Space, Space]Engineering is not normally a field that produces fine writers, as I’m sure anyone who’s had to slog through engineering reports can attest. Henry Petroski, however, is a fine exception. He’s been writing great books since the eighties, and has been a regular columnist […]
