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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2078143" data-attributes="member: 246624"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465013058?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465013058" target="_blank">Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0465013058" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> by <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/" target="_blank">Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum</a> tries to make several different points.&nbsp; The central framework of the book, on which all the arguments are hung, is that science has a status, a place, in American culture, politics, and economy, and that this status has changed over time.&nbsp; Mooney and Kirshenbaum make the claim that science rose to an increasingly higher status than it had ever previously enjoyed through a series of events and transformations during the early and middle part of the 20th century, and subsequently, suffered a series of political and cultural defeats so that today real science holds a precarious position in the public view.&nbsp; The outcome of this reduced status is that important policy decisions that require an understanding of and appreciation for, and most importantly a certain level of trust in science are contaminated by right wing generated pseudoscience and politically motivated denialism.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/unscientific_america_by_chris.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/unscientific_america_by_chris.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/217eOfdTsy8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/217eOfdTsy8/unscientific_america_by_chris.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2078143, member: 246624"] [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465013058?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwgregladenc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465013058"]Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future[/URL][IMG]http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0465013058[/IMG] by [URL="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/"]Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum[/URL] tries to make several different points. The central framework of the book, on which all the arguments are hung, is that science has a status, a place, in American culture, politics, and economy, and that this status has changed over time. Mooney and Kirshenbaum make the claim that science rose to an increasingly higher status than it had ever previously enjoyed through a series of events and transformations during the early and middle part of the 20th century, and subsequently, suffered a series of political and cultural defeats so that today real science holds a precarious position in the public view. The outcome of this reduced status is that important policy decisions that require an understanding of and appreciation for, and most importantly a certain level of trust in science are contaminated by right wing generated pseudoscience and politically motivated denialism. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/unscientific_america_by_chris.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/unscientific_america_by_chris.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/217eOfdTsy8[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/217eOfdTsy8/unscientific_america_by_chris.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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