"For every five hours of cable news, less than a 
minute is devoted to science; 46 percent of 
Americans reject evolution and think the Earth is 
less than 10,000 years old; the number of 
newspapers with weekly science sections has 
shrunken by two-thirds over the past several 
decades. The public is polarized over climate 
change­an issue where political party affiliation 
determines one's view of reality­and in dangerous 
retreat from childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, 
only 18 percent of Americans have even met a 
scientist to begin with; more than half can't 
name a living scientist role model. "

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy 
Threatens our Future, by Chris Mooney. Sheril Kirshenbaum

<http://www.amazon.com/Unscientific-America-Scientific-Illiteracy-Threatens/dp/0465013058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251807121&sr=8-1>http://www.amazon.com/Unscientific-America-Scientific-Illiteracy-Threatens/dp/0465013058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251807121&sr=8-1 


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