The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Lawrence OttoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A must read for anyone who wants to understand the current political climate. The hostility aimed at scientists gets worse each year as our society continues to slip. Otto provides a history of the tensions between science and civilization and its three main adversaries of the moment: religious zealots, corporate PR machines determined to discredit global warming, and some post-modern academics who dismiss science as "just another way" of looking at the world. As Otto points, science differs from other fields because it relies on overwhelming evidence to support itself, using experiments to confirm their conclusions. The amount of anti-intellectual nonsense out there is overwhelming, people willingly working against the future. At the same time, Otto calls out his fellow scientists to engage better with the public. My only criticism is that the book gets repetitive at times, but still though provoking.
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