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Paul Roberts' "The End of Oil" has come out in paperback with a new afterword that is hardly comforting.
That is the warning sounded by Chris Mooney in his upcoming book The Republican War on Science.
...an organization that once took the lead in promoting innovative and critical thinking can no longer justify the risks....
Real education, i.e. the process of learning to think critically, suffers from the increasing trend toward teaching to the test, and no subject suffers more than science.
New books remind me of older books that still deserve attention, such as this excellent and readable title.
Since we are spotlighting the Intelligent Design sideshow in Kansas, I review an important but overlooked book.
Objective scientists recognize a drumbeat of warning from a variety of sources. Special interests still engage in wishful thinking.
In this compelling book, readers relive events that made or are still making history and discover the human back stories.