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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
Unscientific America How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future Author:Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferationmany 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 ha... more »s 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 discoursebefore it is too late.« less
ISBN-13: 9780465019175 ISBN-10: 046501917X Publication Date: 6/8/2010 Pages:240 Edition:First Trade Paper Ed Rating: