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28-08-2017 | Society’s Books of Note
Society’s Books of Note
September/October 2017
Published in: Society | Issue 5/2017
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Allan Mazur, Technical Controversies over Public Policy: From Fluoridation to Fracking to Climate Change. New York: Routledge, 2017. $44.95. 200 pp.…Mazur, professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, offers a comprehensive account of major public science controversies of the past half century, and he describes how political, ideological, and value-based factors displace or overwhelm conclusions based on scientific evidence. He provides a roadmap for showing how to improve the public conversation over controversial scientific and technical matters.