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Whereas good science is rewarded for being painstaking and nuanced, politics is the enemy of subtlety.

— Chris Mooney Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

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Media coverage tends to be episodic and event-driven, always in search of the dramatic and the new.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

And then there’s religion, the source of the deepest fissure in the science-society relationship.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

Without the Internet, the modern vaccine-skeptic movement probably wouldn’t exist, at least not in it current form.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

In part, the divorce of science and politics can be explained by the very different worldviews that inform each field.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

They didn’t even understand the science they presumed to criticize.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

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