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.
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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.
Is the United States in danger of losing its competitive edge in science and technology (S & T)? This concern has been raised repeatedly since the end of the Cold War, most recently in a wave of reports in the mid-2000s suggesting that globalization and the growing strength of o…
Is the United States in danger of losing its competitive edge in science and technology (S & T)? This concern has been raised repeatedly since the end of the Cold War, most recently in a wave of reports in the mid-2000s suggesting that globalization and the growing strength of o…
"Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals, and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science - originally used as a synonym for general knowledge - became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the hi…
"Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals, and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science - originally used as a synonym for general knowledge - became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the hi…
Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But on the other hand, the complexity of scient…
""Failed Evidence is a masterful expose of both the flaws in our criminal justice system and the reasons many police and prosecutors are unwilling to correct them. If real change is to occur, would-be reformers need to ingest this book. Its prescriptions, all based on the latest…
