Cat shares a podcast with us:
Perhaps you might enjoy this 1/2 hour podcast: Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Chris Mooney, author of the book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
. Some things I found interesting in the podcast were their discussions about how to determine what is a good baseline for science literacy in a rapidly-changing science environment (ie. stem cell research didn’t even exist when many of us were in school), where do you go to get good science info, why is science literacy important in politics and citizenship and policy, how has the science community dropped the ball in public science literacy.
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I’ve read Mooney’s “The Republican War on Science” and it was pretty good, but a bit depressing. But some of the reviews of this book haven’t been that good, so I’m not in any hurry to check it out. Next time I’m at the book store I’ll try to find it and look it over.
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Neece Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 11:50 am
I’ve also heard this book isn’t very good. I can say the interview is quite weak and very low on content. It certainly didn’t inspire me to want to read the book, and only annoyed me that nothing was being discussed.
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