Quack Policy

Quack PolicyPoliticians and lobbyists who promote new regulations and taxes typically claim to have science on their side. Scientific evidence shows that the actions they wish to discourage are harmful and that government intervention would reduce this harm. Yet much 'evidence based policy' is grounded on poor scientific reasoning and even worse economics

Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses

Of the more than seventy plays he wrote

The chapter concludes by illustrating advanced research approaches for understanding the mode of action of PHs and optimizing rates

contemporary historians are being asked to serve as 'expert witnesses' to painful events in the recent past - in the courtroom and in the media

This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture

rainfall is supplemented by irrigation

Entirely new evidence is presented here in scientific detail

This title looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of different user groups

the ways we play them

as well as the development of other instruments of nanotechnological experimentation

which includes a broad condemnation of French critics

This chapter describes the housing and management of broiler breeders