The New Know-Nothings : the Political Foes of the Scientific Study of Human Nature (POLITICS, SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers. New. 1999. Hardcover. 1560003936 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 404 pages -- From the description of the book printed on the dust jacket: " In recent years, political, religious, and other special-interest groups have waged war on behavioral and social research projects that threaten their interest and values. They have hounded researchers out of universities, cut off their funding through congressional and state legislative pressure, and harrassed them with public demonstrations and picketing, all in the hope of forcing them to abandon their research...[I]t comes from all across the political spectrum, as anti-science attitudes and techniques have diffused throughout society...This phenomenon represents a grave threat to both scientific freedom and the well-being of modern society. Morton Hunt gives us the first serious overview of this threat to behavioral and social science research. He illustrates precisely how scientific research has been subjected to political attack...using in-depth case histories and background discussion of the conflicting social forces involved...Hunt reviews the nature-nurture debate, biological contributions to gender differences, conservative opposition to sex research in the schools, the debate over the controlled drinking approach to alcoholism...and other cases. He argues that beyond the specific projects targeted, the most important thing threatened is the social valuation of scientific freedom. The belief that it is permissible and laudable to obstruct research is neo-Luddite, obscurantist, and anti-intellectual..." -- with a bonus offer--; .