Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
by Michael Stebbins
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Read in August, 2006
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Scientists have this tendency to build themselves up in castles of vocabulary and reason. Yet, the walls block both ways preventing the people from grasping the informations that for the most part is created explicitly for them. And at the same time the walls prevent scientists from defending themselves from attacks that are irrational and ideologically driven. This book comes down from that lofty fortress, rolls in the mud, and throw spunches back in a rhetorical style of the adversaries. We do...more
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Read in March, 2007
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Anyone who does not know much about the state of science in America today
This book was not a "scholarly tome" written in a language convoluted to those who don't know scientific jargon. It's a call for attention to the problems with science and science education in America today. Unfortunately, many of the people who should read this book never will. Great points and some unusual arguments. Good book.
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I say it's for next semester's class, but truly, it just amuses me.
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