Tom Bethell, a great writer whose book on private property, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages, received much acclaim, has now given us the third installment in the Politically Incorrect Guide series: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science. I’ve just read it, and it’s excellent. A consistent theme throughout is the corrupting effect that government funding has had on science. Bethell writes in his introduction: “Take cancer research. In Chapter 11 I argue that for three decades the National Cancer Institute has pursued an erroneous theory of cancer’s origins — the gene-mutation theory. It’s not that the … Continue reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science