{"id":22,"date":"2007-07-12T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2007\/07\/12\/the-book-review-as-an-essay-venue\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T06:42:09","slug":"the-book-review-as-an-essay-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2007\/07\/12\/the-book-review-as-an-essay-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Review as an Essay Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting things mentioned at this year&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sciwrite.org\/\">Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop<\/a> was the use of writing a book review as a venue for one&#8217;s own essay. John Horgan, who was the leader of my small group at the workshop, did this with his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/books\/review\/18horgan.html?ex=1184472000&#038;en=80015626ddff80e8&#038;ei=5070\">review<\/a> of Chris Mooney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRepublican-War-Science-Chris-Mooney%2Fdp%2F0465046762%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1184307645%26sr%3D8-2&#038;tag=ramblemuse-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Republican War on Science<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=ramblemuse-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of political censorship of science was in the news this last week with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/11\/washington\/11surgeon.html\">testimony before congress<\/a> of former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back last December, the Union of Concerned Scientists <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/news\/press_release\/10600-scientists-condemn.html\">reported over 10,000 scientists signing a declaration<\/a> condemning political tampering with scientific reports and conclusions. This announcement was also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6178213.stm\">picked-up by the BBC<\/a>. John Horgan&#8217;s book review essay brings the war on science down to it&#8217;s effect on an individual scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting things mentioned at this year&#8217;s Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop was the use of writing a book review as a venue for one&#8217;s own essay. John Horgan, who was the leader of my small group at the workshop, did this with his review of Chris Mooney&#8217;s The Republican War on Science. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}