Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

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Overview

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, one minute is devoted to science

46 percent of Americans Believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old

The number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk two-thirds in the last twenty years.

In Unscientific America, journalist and best-selling author Chris Mooney and scientist Sheril Krishenbaum explain how this state of affairs came about, propose a broad array of initiatives to reverse this dangerous trend, and exhort Americans to reintegrate science into public discourse-before it is too late.

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With climate change, the energy crisis, deadly pollutants, and ever-diminishing resources, science matters more today than ever before, but try explaining that to the scientifically illiterate American public. According to the authors of this spirited manifesto, the chasm between new-millennium science and general scientific knowledge is huge and growing, thanks to narrow corporate interests, a weak education system, science-challenged politicians, and a detached, hyper-specialized scientific community. And don't expect the media to improve this dire situation: For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science. Unscientific America is a startling wake-up call for a nation squandering its future.
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Mooney, author of the bestselling The Republican War on Science, and Kirshenbaum, a marine scientist at Duke and former congressional science fellow, argue that the public ruckus caused when astronomers stripped Pluto of its planetary status demonstrates the disconnect between scientists and the general public, who share only a sense of mutual distrust. The authors place the blame for this squarely on both sides, as well as on the media (TV shows that misrepresent medical science and films that portray scientists as evil or nerdy), and plead for an improved level of discourse. But their repeated assertion that science and religion are compatible will not convince anyone who believes otherwise. Mooney showed his ideological colors in The Republican War on Science, and with their attacks on President Bush, he and his coauthor can't be accused of being nonpartisan here, despite their call for less partisan, nonideological debate. Some readers may also balk at paying $25 for a book nearly a third of which consists of notes and documentation. Nevertheless, Mooney and Kirshenbaum make valid arguments that can only help to further the public debate about these important issues. (July)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780465019175
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 6/8/2010
  • Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 615,584
  • Product dimensions: 10.78 (w) x 2.54 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Meet the Author

Chris Mooney is the author of The Republican War on Science and Storm World. A Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT, he contributes to many publications, including Mother Jones, Wired, the Boston Globe, and Slate. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sheril Kirshenbaum is Associate in Research for Ocean and Coastal Policy at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix

From a Scientist and a Writer xvii

1 Why Pluto Matters 1

2 Rethinking the Problem of Scientific Illiteracy 13

Part I The Rise and Cultural Decline of American Science

3 From Sputnik to Sagan 25

4 Third Culture, or Nerd Culture? 41

Part II Different Rifts, Still Divided

5 Science Escape 2008 53

6 Unpopular Science 67

7 Hollywood and the Mad Scientists 81

8 Bruising Their Religion 95

Part III The Future in our Bones

9 The Bloggers Cannot Save Us 109

10 Is Our Scientists Learning? 117

Conclusion: A New Mission for American Science 127

Notes 133

Index 199

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 3, 2010

    Unscientific America

    Unscientific America is a fantastic book that tackles the the problem with scientific illiteracy in America with dynamic precision. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum team up and create an influential pair. Together they wittily tackle the major problems and concerns that face our society today. Their love and concern for science and the world is clearly expressed throught there clever and ironic writing style.
    The chapters are named in an almost comical way and the chapters are well diversed. The book takes every-day ideas and events and explores them through a new and thought-provoking perspective. The clever ideas and resolutions are both inspirational and revolutionary.
    This book will cause anyone to have a change of heart abou the unique society of science. One will begin to embrace new ideas with caution but open mindedness. The stereotypical idea of scientists that I once had is now replaced by a new, more realistic view of the heartwarming intellectuals.
    I highly recommend this book. It will open a new idea of science vs. society and ease ones stereotypes of the scientific world.

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    Entire book could have been a long paragraph, meaningless dribble with almost halt the book taken up with notes, read the inside cover and you've just read the most interesting aspect of the book

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