How unscientific is America?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Most recently, I wrote an article, in which I interviewed Chris Mooney--author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future.
Mooney and his co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum explore how America has changed--becoming a place much less into science than it should be in order to prepare for a hyper-scientific future.
They write: "Americans built the bomb, reached the moon, decoded the genome, and created the Internet. And yet today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles."
Check out the entire interview here:
Bringing science back into America's sphere
Mooney and his co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum explore how America has changed--becoming a place much less into science than it should be in order to prepare for a hyper-scientific future.
They write: "Americans built the bomb, reached the moon, decoded the genome, and created the Internet. And yet today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles."
Check out the entire interview here:
Bringing science back into America's sphere
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