I will try to keep this short, especially since the combined length of all the reviews of Unscientific America probably outstrips the length of the book itself.*

I did not particularly like Unscientific America. Running a scant 132 pages, it is a scattershot survey of how scientists (according to authors Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum) have not pulled their weight in communicating important issues to the public. It is not an in-depth study of America’s science culture wars but rather an extended op-ed whose content will be familiar to anyone who followed the various “framing” skirmishes of the past few years. As Jessica Palmer wrote in her review, reading Unscientific America is like “speed-dating at a science policy