Some thoughts to guide
your thinking:
The late Carl Sagan, astronomer and irrepressible purveyor
of science to the general public, in 1995 famously stated: "We've arranged
a global civilization in which most crucial elements …profoundly depend on
science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one
understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We
might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture
of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
Over 70% of Americans do not have the background science
literacy to read and understand the science page of the NY Times.
The majority of Americans get their knowledge of science
from mass media, or from non-scientific sources such as ancient texts,
authority figures, intuition, or religion.
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