Creating Scientific Controversies: Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society. By David Harker. Cambridge university press, Cambridge, 2015. ISBn 978-1-107-69236-7. 260 pp. Softcover, $28.99.
Do you remember the term manufactroversy? A portmanteau of manufactured and controversy, it appeared in 2008 as the intentional product of a marketing and advertising agency to characterize the supposed controversy over evolution that Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed— the execrable creationist propaganda film fronted by Ben Stein—sought to promote.