Is this science or is it politics?
This week is FP Comment’s 24th annual Junk Science Week, dedicated to exposing the scientists, NGOs, activists, politicians, journalists, media outlets, cranks and quacks who manipulate science data to achieve their objectives. Our standard formal definition is that junk science occurs when scientific facts are distorted, risk is exaggerated and the science adapted and warped by politics and ideology to serve another agenda.
There can be no better place to start than “How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going” by. Published earlier this year, the book is described as “the product of my life’s work” by Smil, who has written 46 books over the past 50 years from his perch in the environment faculty at the University of Manitoba.
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