Sharon Weinberger's Imaginary Weapons

If you missed it, NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" featured a fascinating interview yesterday with Sharon Weinberger, the editor-in-chief of Defense Technology International, about her new book Imaginary Weapons. Her description of the way that the Bush administration has shunned scientific peer review in the defense research and procurement process is disturbingly similar to Chris Mooney's analysis of the rest of the administration's science policy in The Republican War on Science. As Josh Marshall wrote back in 2003, it's our first postmodern presidency...