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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future
November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11 (p. 31)
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
A journalist and a scientist lament ignorance of science and propose ways to fix the problem.
Basic Books, 2009, 209 p., $24.
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Book: "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future"
by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49201/title/Unscientific_America_How_Scientific_Illiteracy__Threatens_Our_Future_by_Chris__Mooney_and_Sheril_Kirshenbaum
I have not read the book, but I have been e-posting about the subject during the past ten years. E-posting and not print-publishing, because IMO the print-published science-world is polluted and science-stifling. And IMO and at my advanced age it's about time that science accept and treat and exploit e-media as an equal to print-published media.
Having e-posted about the Societal Implications Of The 20th Century Technology Culture, IMO the core essential scientific illiteracy is inherent and common to BOTH the public at large AND the "scientists", who are an integral part of the public at large. The illiterarcy-uncertainty starts right at the foundation with the vagueness of the term "scientist" that is rightly placed here in quot'n marks.
IMO the 20th century technology culture is inherently a world-wide unscientific culture, fostered and led by an unscientific American culture, originated, developed and made omnipresent and omnipotent by the AAAS, essentially a "scientists" old-style trade-union evolved by now into a political guild-establishment.
See
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45198/title/Science_Future_for_July_18,_2009
Science future and scientific literarcy face a challenge of assessing the nature of the Science Establishment and considering if-how-whereto change its nature, organization and its charter.
Dov Henis
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