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06/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Science, Right or Left

Ehsan Masood explores whether science is becoming politicised on controversial issues.

Ehsan Masood explores how science has increasingly become a political battlefield between Left and Right, from nuclear power and genetically-modified crops to global warming.

Ehsan Masood looks at how science has increasingly become an ideological battlefield between Left and Right. From nuclear power and genetically modified crops through to the mother of scientific-political rows over global warming, scientific research is now the subject of intense partisan debate.

Masood talks to a range of leading scientists and politicians, including current and former science ministers, to examine why this is happening and whether public attitudes to science are being increasingly coloured by politics.

He looks at evidence from the United States that there has been a stark shift in attitudes to science across the political spectrum and asks whether scientists themselves are playing a growing role in politics.

Producer: Adam Bowen.

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