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Sex, Drugs, and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
Skeptical Inquirer, Sept-Oct, 2006 by Kendrick Frazier
Sex, Drugs, and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted. Michael Stebbins. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006. 350 pp. $24.95, Hardcover. This book is by a scientist who's not just irreverent but angry. He's upset, undoubtedly legitimately, about "miscreants and bent backs that deliberately try to confuse the public about science and have attacked scientists to move social or political agendas to go against the best information we have." He's direct, blunt, and cuts through nonsense with his scythe-like tongue: "This is not a scholarly tome.
There are no references, interviews, or balanced arguments," he begins. The book "came from my perception of a need to address the litany of bullshit and lies spewed at the public." He begins with the pressures that go into making a typical modern biologist. He then takes on those who oppose stem cell research, the latest examples of those who "wear their religion on their sleeve [and] have a problem with science," a line that began with the persecution of Galileo and continues in modern times with opposition to organ transplants, blood transfusions, recombinant DNA technology, and now stem cells. He goes on to sex education, gender differences, "race and other discriminations," genetically modified foods (and everything), global warming, bioterrorism, drugs, health care, and science education, including creationism.
COPYRIGHT 2006 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
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