| | Glenn, I really liked your "Don't quit your day job!" comment. My business strategy does need work!
For those interested, Peter has asked for his account to be deleted.
Kurt, while some of the chapter titles mean what you think, not all of them are. For instance, the chapter on GM foods, if memory serves me, was not anti-GM foods. It's about the scare-mongering associated with it. And some of the anecdotes were interesting.
For me the problem was that the political bias hurt the point of the book. Junk science is interesting because we want to know who's behind it? Why is it promoted? Why is it accepted? Why isn't it countered? And most importantly, what can we do about it?
A consistent anti-capitalist bias only superficially answers the first question, and often gets that wrong. Blaming it on "the profit motive" misses the wider context, which might explain a lot more. Like what role does the FDA play (or other government paternalism)? How do people react to drugs when they are assured by the government that they're safe?
And of course, the question of what to do is logically "we need more government involvement" (although in some places he just leaves the question unanswered).
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