Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum are the co-authors of the new book "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future," upon which this article is partly based.

Chris Mooney's Salon stories

Monday, Jul 13, 2009 03:20 PDT

Why America is flunking science

Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture
Monday, Feb 4, 2002 09:22 PST

Bill Clinton's questionable clemencies

The former president's decision to release Puerto Rican terrorists in 1999 prompted outrage from Congress and his wife. Now it also bolsters claims that he was "soft on terrorism."
Friday, Dec 7, 2001 13:16 PST

A pox on pro-lifers

Antiabortion groups say they'd rather die than take a smallpox vaccine derived from fetal tissue.

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