In all honesty the longer I work with people in the sheltered workshop, the more concerns I have about the entire set-up.

The disabled folks spend most of their time doing menial work for companies like Wal-Mart, DHL, and Office Depot (stuffing envelopes, sorting cardboard boxes for reuse, rolling crate upon crate of plastic tubes that are later shipped off-site to be unrolled again and used as the water hoses in refrigerator ice makers...). Any given client gets worked with by a life skills trainer like me for maybe 2-3 hours a week, many of them less than or not at all (if they're a group home client who is theoretically receiving skills coaching at home), and the rest of the time they just do work for a minuscule "piece rate" (e.g. each tube they roll is worth X percent of minimum wage) that is so low that I probably couldn't work fast enough to get up to minimum wage.
What really got to me was a couple of months ago when minimum wage went up - The company recalculated the piece rates so that the clients would still be making the same amount of money despite the change in minimum wage. The argument that is always made is "Well, these people can't get jobs in the community so anything is better than nothing", but I don't buy that when I'm handing out 2-week paychecks for 20 cents.

But I digress...
I just started reading
Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology, and Politics in Science by John Grant. I read his previous book,
Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time... when I was on vacation a couple of years ago and I thoroughly enjoyed it, so I'd been looking forward to this one. My only problem with Grant is that sometimes it seems like he's trying to cover so much ground in a relatively short book that he just kind of races by topics with "this happened" and little other explanation.