title: List of books about the politics of science
text: # List of books about the politics of science
  
  This is a list of notable books about the politics of science that have their own articles on Wikipedia.
  
  ## Environment
  
  * Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
  
  ## Health
  
  * Liberation by Oppression (2002) by Thomas Szasz
  * Mad in America (2002) by Robert Whitaker
  * Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness (2006) by Jacky Law
  * Medical Apartheid (2007) by Harriet A. Washington
  * Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass
  * Bad Science (2008) by Ben Goldacre
  * Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (2008) by David Michaels (epidemiologist)
  * Anatomy of an Epidemic (2010) by Robert Whitaker
  * Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients (2012) by Ben Goldacre
  
  ## Miscellaneous
  
  * Bending Science (2008)
  * Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (1983)
  * Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (2009)
  * Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion (2001)
  * Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth (1998)
  * The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science (2004)
  * The New Politics of Science (1984)
  * The Republican War on Science (2005)
  