Galileo's Middle Finger: Persecuting Scientists Whose Findings Are Seen As Politically Incorrect

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1. FYI.

Read the 1-star reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activists/product-reviews/1594206082/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_1?filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1

Related, extensively covered in book: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/
"The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age" by Alice D. Dreger

Oh my, only ONE PAGE (p171) on this according to the book's Index via Amazon's "Look Inside!" and NOTHING on David L. Lewis?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discredited-vaccine-autism/

On November 9, David Lewis of the National Whistleblower's Center in Washington DC published a letter in the BMJ arguing that Wakefield did not commit research fraud. Lewis told Nature that he thinks the combination of public charges and a slow, secretive investigation has left the public not knowing whom to believe and is unfair to the accused researcher. &quot The system) throws people like Andy into a no-man's-land," Lewis says.

More: http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/11/re-how-case-against-mmr-vaccine-was-fixed-0

http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/09/re-how-case-against-mmr-vaccine-was-fixed
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111109/full/479157a.html

12/31/08: http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/08/age-of-autism-awards-2008-galileo-award-dr-andrew-wakefield.html

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-for-sale-david-l-lewis-phd/1117301377

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, Ph.D.

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’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty 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 book is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis’s experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield.