Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation,many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science, and the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-three in the last twenty years. In Unscientific America , journalist and best-selling author Chris Mooney and scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum explain ...
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Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation,many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science, and the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-three in the last twenty years. In Unscientific America , journalist and best-selling author Chris Mooney and scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum explain this dangerous state of affairs, proposing a broad array of initiatives that could reverse the current trend. An impassioned call to arms, Unscientific America exhorts Americans to reintegrate science into public discourse,before it is too late.
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There is a very useful article in this book. Unfortunately the authors stretched it to book length. The book also suffers from the extreme political partisanship of the writers. One of the biggest problems with effective distribution of scientific information in the country today is this real or perceived link between science and political parties. I was entertained by the differences between today's political realities and what the authors hoped for when they wrote in 2008.
I do think Mooney and Kristenbaum do an superior job of criticizing the 'evangelical atheists' whose writings often have little to do with science issues and help stoke the fires of distrust between religion and science.
Overall Unscientific America will remain on my bookshelf but mainly as an example of what happens when politics and science attempt to play together.
