My advance on Chris Mooney’s flash through town on his book tour:

Science policy is not the sort of thing that usually lands on the best-seller lists. But political fireworks is a different story, and Mooney’s “The Republican War on Science” has been a hit.

“We had no idea this was going to be as big a deal,” Mooney said in a phone interview from Bellingham, Wash., the latest stop in a tour to promote the release of an updated paperback edition of his book.