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Article: When science crosses politics, II: getting down to earth in the great wastewater disputes.(Inside the Profession)
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
- Author:
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Now, in respect to the human race at large, you do not perceive a
constant progress of improvement that looks as if approaching nearer and
nearer to perfection. On the contrary, we see the human race as a whole
subject to slight swings; and it never yet made some steps forward but
what it did, soon after, slide back again into its previous station with
double the celerity.
--Moses Mendelssohn
Introduction
Scientists and the press have been sounding alarms recently about the increasing politicization of science, particularly the science of public health and the environment. At the federal level, there have been reports of research ...