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Nature 455, 464-467 (25 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455464b; Published online 24 September 2008
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Which science book should the next US president read?
Steven Shapin1, Jerry Coyne2, Rita Colwell3, Martin Nowak4, Jerry Ravetz5 & Kevin Padian6
BOOK REVIEWED-Science, Money, and Politics
by Daniel S. Greenberg
(Univ. Chicago Press, 2001)
BOOK REVIEWED-The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins
(W. W. Norton, 2006; first published by Longman, 1986)
BOOK REVIEWED-Microbe Hunters
by Paul de Kruif
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002; first published by Harcourt, 1939)
BOOK REVIEWED-The Evolution of Cooperation
by Robert Axelrod
(Basic Books, 1984)
BOOK REVIEWED-Intervention
by Denise Caruso
(Hybrid Vigor Press, 2006)
BOOK REVIEWED-Undermining Science
by Seth Shulman
(Univ. California Press, 2006)
What a president needs to understand is not science — which science, after all? — but the role of scientific expertise in the democratic political process.
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