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DAN AGIN, an emeritus biologist at the University of Chicago, is passionate in defence of science. In Junk Science he targets those who abuse or distort it, starting with scientists who fake results. This is neither rare nor easily uncovered, he warns. Agin lambasts the Bush administration, Big Tobacco, the pharmaceutical industry, mainstream and alternative medicine, psychotherapy, the religious right and others who deny or attack inconvenient research. Anyone who values good science will appreciate finding all this together in a cogent, powerfully argued book.