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Each year, Congress appropriates billions of dollars for scientific research. In this book, veteran science reporter Daniel S. Greenberg takes us behind closed doors to show us who gets it, and why. What he reveals is startling: an overlooked world of false claims, pork, and cronyism, where science, money, and politics all manipulate one another.
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Greenberg, an investigative journalist based in Washington, DC, writes about the politics and finance of science in the US from the end of World War II to the turn of the century. He seeks to explain the prosperity and autonomy of science as a deliberately nonpolitical enterprise embedded in a political system of rewards for vote-gathering and campaign fund-raising. Greenberg looks at who receives money for scientific research, the tactics used to get it, where the money comes from, and what the results are and aren't in terms of hype and actual scientific breakthroughs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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