Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America is the title of a new book by Shawn Lawrence Otto, c0- founder of Science Debate 2008, one of the largest online (125 million) science sites that featured a “debate” between the 2008 Presidential candidates on science.
In Science Debate 2008, Presidential candidates (even during the primaries) were invited to participate in real debates on science, but no candiate accepted. So Science Debate submitted 14 questions (which were reviewed by millions of readers) to the two candidates, Barak Obama and John McCain. You can see the questions and their answers here. I wrote many posts on Science Debate 2008, and you read one here.
I’ve just started reading Otto’s book on my iPad, and it touches on many of the themes that have been discussed on this blog including politics and science, science and religion, teaching evolution, climate change, and science in a democratic society.
I am going to write a few posts over the next week related to Shawn Otto’s new book, and of course relate it to science education specifically, and public school education generally.
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