"Research and Destroy" by Chris Mooney

"Research and Destroy" by Chris Mooney:

"Developing an arsenal of scientific arguments may represent a strategic innovation for the religious right. But Brind's attempts to prove a link between abortion and breast cancer also show how this new tactic can backfire. When NCI changed its breast cancer fact sheet in response to conservative advocacy, the institute met with howls of outrage from breast cancer advocates. Under public pressure, NCI then assembled a workshop of over 100 experts to reinvestigate the alleged link between abortion and breast cancer. Brind was the sole dissenter. Soon afterward, the group reaffirmed that abortion 'is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk.' "