The Noble Lie When Scientists Give the Right

Is drug addiction really a disease? Is sexuality inborn and fixed or mutable? Science is where we often turn when we can't achieve moral clarity. In The Noble Lie, acclaimed and controversial science writer Gary Greenberg shows how scientists try to use their findings to resolve the dilemmas raised by some of the most hotly contested issues of our time, from gay rights to euthanasia and the drug war. He reveals how their answers often turn out to be more fiction than scienceand explores whether they cause more harm than good.

GARY GREENBERG has written about the intersection of science, politics, and ethics for many magazines, include Harper's, the New Yorker, Wired, Discover, Rolling Stone, and Mother Jones, where he's a contributing writer. His reporting has been widely reprinted and anthologized, including in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002.? He is also a practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Addiction: Visions of Healing	p. 25
Depression: In the Magic Factory	p. 51
Sexual Orientation: Gay Science	p. 79
Schizophrenia: In the Kingdom of the Unabomber	p. 103
Brain Death: As Good as Dead	p. 127
Persistent Vegetative State: Back from the Dead	p. 157
Mortality: We'll All Wake Up Together	p. 175
Afterword	p. 207
Notes	p. 215
Index	p. 235
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The Noble Lie When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons

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