Fool me twice : fighting the assault on science in America / Shawn Lawrence Otto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otto, Shawn Lawrence.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--United States.

Science.

Intellectual life.

United States.

Science--Study and teaching.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

United States--Intellectual life--21st century.

Learning and scholarship--United States.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

376 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2011]

Summary:

Solutions to the largest problems the world faces--climate change, energy, biodiversity loss, ocean health, water supply, and bio-security--are scientific and technological, but politics is failing to keep up with them. Otto combines the great minds of the science world to write a behind-the scenes look at the top science questions facing the country now and in the near future. 256 pp. 40,000 print.

Contents:

Part I America's Science Problem

Chapter 1 Let's Have a Science Debate 3

Chapter 2 Is Science Political? 22

Part II Yesterday's Science Politics

Chapter 3 Religion, Meet Science 37

Chapter 4 Science, Meet Freedom 54

Chapter 5 Gimme Shelter 73

Chapter 6 Science, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll 92

Chapter 7 American Antiscience 107

Chapter 8 The Descent of Thought 139

Part III Today's Science Politics

Chapter 9 Teaching Evolution: The Values Battle 163

Chapter 10 Climate Change: The Money Battle 186

Part IV Tomorrow's Science Politics

Chapter 11 Freedom and the Commons 245

Part V The Solution

Chapter 12 Talking About Science in America 273

Chapter 13 Rethinking Our Religion 295

Chapter 14 On Truth and Beauty 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781605292175

1605292176

OCLC:

704383954