Fool Me Twice
Subtitle: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
By: Shawn Lawrence Otto
Publisher: Rodale; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Emmaus, Pa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781605292175
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Science; Study and teaching; Sociology of Knowledge; Intellectual life; Learning and scholarship
Description: Reveals how social and policy changes are failing to support scientific research in such key areas as climate change, energy, and genetics, counseling readers on how to overcome such challenges as political denials and a lack of scientific government expertise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: America's Science Problem; label: Chapter 1.
title: Let's Have a Science Debate
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2.
title: Is Science Political?
pagenum: 22; label: Part 2
title: Yesterday's Science Politics; label: Chapter 3.
title: Religion, Meet Science
pagenum: 37; label: Chapter 4.
title: Science , Meet Freedom
pagenum: 54; label: Chapter 5.
title: Gimme Shelter
pagenum: 73; label: Chapter 6.
title: Science, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll
pagenum: 92; label: Chapter 7.
title: American Antiscience
pagenum: 107; label: Chapter 8.
title: The Descent of Thought
pagenum: 139; label: Part III.
title: Today's Science Politics; label: Chapter 9.
title: Teaching Evolution: The Values Battle
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 10.
title: Climate Change: The Money Battle
pagenum: 186; label: Part IV.
title: Tomorrow's Science Politics; label: Chapter 11. Freedom and the Commons
title: 245; label: Part V.
title: The Solution; label: Chapter 12.
title: Talking About Science in America
pagenum: 273; label: Chapter 13.
title: Rethinking Our Religion
pagenum: 295; label: Chapter 14.
title: On Truth and Beauty
pagenum: 305; label: Appendix
pagenum: 317; label: Notes
pagenum: 324; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 346; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 365; label: Index
pagenum: 368