What I found most refreshing about the book is that it not only isolates the history behind, and source of, the problem in question—the pervasiveness and dangerousness of scientific illiteracy in modern society–but it offers viable solutions.
One of these proposed solutions is the development of "science ambassadors." Interestingly, I briefly toyed with including an argument for just that sort of thing in my paper on Kitcher's Science, Truth and Democracy, but I abandoned the idea in favor of a more abstract approach. (Hey, I am a philosopher.) But it strikes me as a very good idea - and not just for science.
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