Science for Sale

How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

By: David L. Lewis PhD

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: "You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?" "I know," Dr. Lewis replied, "I just hope to stay out of prison." Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis' commentary in Nature, titled "EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics". Three years later, and 30 years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in Washington to receive a Science Achievement Award from Administrator Carol Browner for his second article in Nature. By then, EPA had transferred Dr. Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination - the Agency's only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet. The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best. This audiobook is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis' experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

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a very important subject for our times

like other books such as swindled a dark history of food fraud, this is a very important subject to be aware of. this kind of a situation always comes about whenever organized and Powerful interests are able to control information like they do today with science.

Paranoid Yet?

As they say, just because you are paranoid doesn't mean people aren't talking about you. And so it is with conspiracies, especially when there is a lot of money involved. Thank you Dr. Lewis for your sacrifices and this very serious book.

Why we should question all "science"

This was an interesting book detailing the corruption of scientific institutions by special interest in government, industry and academia. The effects of this scientific corruption affects all of us. Any and all science should be questioned.

A great read

I agree With Dr. Lewis that our government agencies are losing the faith of the people. We need good strong leadership in our government whose values are strong and whose integrity is impeccable. Unfortunately I have also seen where money is the true persuader. To quotea scripture “the love of money is the root of all evil”. This book underscores that scripture.

The story jumps around a bit, but important!

I think this book would have made more sense if I had read it myself. I like the narrator's voice, but his inflections made it difficult for me to follow the story for some reason. Also, I felt like the story jumped around and was not always told in a sequential manner. Nonetheless, it was a very convincing story that prompted a lot of thought on my part. I will definitely recommend it.