Unscientific America

how scientific illiteracy threatens our future

by Sheril Kirshenbaum, Chris C. Mooney

2009 209 pages eng

Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of twenty-first century require scientific solutions. And yet Americans are paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; 46 percent…