TIME'sFrances Romero has published a great interview with Chris about Unscientific America and how to raise the profile of science in our culture. Here's an excerpt:
TIME: How do you think the debate over global warming has progressed since you published The Republican War on Science?
Mooney: We've come such a long way just because of political change — it's not like the science changed at all, but the politics changed — and yet it's still an incredible struggle. The vote in the House [on a bill to combat global warming] was superclose, and the Senate's going to be probably even closer. The reason that issue is so hard is that we have a gigantic gap between scientists and the public — and by association, the politicians that represent them. Scientists have been quite strong on this for 20 years and still only half of America seems to know what ...
