Os autores consideram que os cientistas, que vivem isolados a fazer a sua ciência, são corresponsáveis pela actual situação de isolamento social da ciência, apelando para uma maior participação deles nos media e na vida pública.
A badana dá uma ideia do conteúdo do livro:
"Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation - many of the most urgent problems of the 21th century require science-based solutions. And yet Americans are paying less and less attention to scientists.
- For every 5 hours of cable news, one minute is devoted to science:
- 46% of Americans believe the Earth is less than 10000 years old;
- the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunken by 2/3 in the last 20 years.
The disconnect between the scientific community and mainstream American society grows steadily wider.
In Unscientific America, journalist and best-selling author C. Mooney and scientist S. Kirshenbaum explain how religious ideologues, a weak education system, science-phobic politicians, and the corporate media have all collaborated to create this dangerous state of affairs - and how hyperspecialized scientists have thus far failed to counter it.
Proposing a bold array of initiatives that could reverse the current trend, Unscientific America is an impassioned call to arms that exhorts Americans to reintegrate science into public discourse - before it is too late. "
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