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Unscientific America : how scientific illiteracy threatens our future / Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mooney, Chris (Chris C.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching--United States.
- Science.
- Communication in science--United States.
- Communication in science.
- Science in popular culture--United States.
- Science in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Journalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. They go on to propose a broad array of initiatives that could lead to a greater integration of science into the national discourse.
- Contents:
- From a scientist and a writer
- Why Pluto matters
- Rethinking the problem of scientific illiteracy
- The rise and cultural decline of American science
- From Sputnik to Sagan
- Third culture, or nerd culture?
- Different rifts, still divided
- Science Escape 2008
- Unpopular science
- Hollywood and the mad scientists
- Bruising their religion
- The future in our bones
- The bloggers cannot save us
- Is our scientists learning?
- Conclusion: a new mission for American science.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-46041-2
- 9786612460418
- 0-7867-4455-3
- OCLC:
- 436089164
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