Overturning Citizen’s United won’t change the electorate or outdated instruction. “Industry’s war against science isn’t limited to climate change. A host of public relations campaigns over the last five decades have spent billions of dollars with the express purpose of sowing public doubt about science…”
“We are creating knowledge at 10 times the rate we have in the recent past. All of that new information must be parsed and its implications worked through our moral and ethical discussion, then codified in our legal and regulatory
Susan: The issue is not just science. The conflation of liberal and conservative mantras about how we teach has led to a dichotomous catechism that hurts everyone. Politically correct versions of history and creationism are equally harmful. especially when combined with America’s ed school trained teachers who are expected to teach bit not know anything.
systems, and that is inevitably a fraught and political process.
“Evidence shows the public is hungry for such discussion of science-driven issues…Educators can develop model curricula and provide training for science-civics classes at the secondary and postsecondary level so that nonscience students develop an understanding of how science works in public policy as well as how it relates to their daily lives.“
