The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science is a 2005 book by Tom Bethell, the third book in the Politically Incorrect Guides series published by Regnery Publishing, after the Guides to American History and Islam.
In the book, Bethell, a senior editor at American Spectator, and a former editor of the Washington Monthly aims to deal with what conservatives have seen as the politicization of science. It addresses a number of issues, including global warming, nuclear power, DDT, AIDS denialism and control of malaria, cloning, genetic engineering, intelligent design, the trial of Galileo and the relationship between science and Christianity. On all these topics, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science argues that the Left have distorted scientific facts in order to advance their political agenda and to increase the size of government, often through scare campaigns like the risk of runaway climate change. It also states that the Left have tried to censor those scientists who disagree with their viewpoints, regardless of what the best scientific evidence might say.
Some parts of the book were later expanded in the Politically Incorrect Guides to Darwinism and global warming.
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