George Melloan Boeken

In a world inundated with persuasive messaging, the book explores the cost of credulity and the importance of skepticism. It highlights how communicators leverage fear tactics to capture attention, often exaggerating potential disasters to promote products, services, or political agendas. By examining the strategies employed by opinion shapers, the narrative encourages readers to critically evaluate the information they encounter and to be cautious of those who seek to manipulate their beliefs and decisions.

The book explores the shift away from supply-side economic principles following Ronald Reagan's presidency, highlighting George H.W. Bush's broken promise not to raise taxes. It critiques Bush's dismissal of supply-side economics, which had previously fostered a thriving entrepreneurial culture. The narrative continues into the 1990s, illustrating how the resurgence of Keynesian policies contributed to the credit bubble and subsequent economic downturn. The author, George Melloan, argues that these changes have had lasting impacts on America's economic landscape.

The good name of true science, which has transformed the world we live in marvelous ways over the last 200 years, has been hijacked for several decades by politicians seeking to employ science and scientists in support of dubious political goals. They have used their power over grants to universities and their power over federal regulatory agencies and United Nations initiatives to this end. Bogus Science examines a series of scares perpetrated by American politicians in collaboration with the UN over the last fifty years: DDT, acid rain, the "ozone hole" and of course "global warming." These scares have cost the world trillions of dollars and all have been debunked by serious scientists. Author George Melloan argues that protection of the environment is a goal that all rational people share, and the incredible advance of genuine science has brought about great strides in creating a cleaner, healthier, and safer human environment in the course of modern history. But that noble cause has been hijacked by zealots motivated by other impulses, which in the extreme derive from what some social philosophers describe as anti-humanism.