Comments on: Chad Orzel on Unscientific America http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/chad-orzel-on-unscientific-america/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter Beattie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/chad-orzel-on-unscientific-america/comment-page-1/#comment-23708 Peter Beattie Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:30:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/chad-orzel-on-unscientific-america/#comment-23708 Chris, over at PZ's blog <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/unscientific_america_how_scien.php#comment-1761429" rel="nofollow">you said</a> that, in contrast to PZ, Chad Orzel did find some solutions to the illiteracy prolem in your book. I <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/unscientific_america_how_scien.php#comment-1761676" rel="nofollow">pointed out</a> that he, in fact, didn't: "I don't have a solution ... We could all use some brilliant suggestions ...". Even in his original review post, he only does some very vague hand-waving: <blockquote>They close with some suggestions regarding ways forward from here, which deserve more discussion than I can really give them in this review post. I don't entirely agree that what they suggest will work, but their suggestions are at least plausible, and they make a reasonable case for them. And at least they're putting something on the table to be discussed.</blockquote> Whatever he's found, he doesn't really seem to be able to get anything across that's at all specific. I'm honestly curious, since I'm an educator and journalist dealing with science topics regularly myself, what your proposed solutions are. Would you perhaps care to share one or two sentences about that here on the blog? Chris, over at PZ’s blog you said that, in contrast to PZ, Chad Orzel did find some solutions to the illiteracy prolem in your book. I pointed out that he, in fact, didn’t: “I don’t have a solution … We could all use some brilliant suggestions …”. Even in his original review post, he only does some very vague hand-waving:

They close with some suggestions regarding ways forward from here, which deserve more discussion than I can really give them in this review post. I don’t entirely agree that what they suggest will work, but their suggestions are at least plausible, and they make a reasonable case for them. And at least they’re putting something on the table to be discussed.

Whatever he’s found, he doesn’t really seem to be able to get anything across that’s at all specific.

I’m honestly curious, since I’m an educator and journalist dealing with science topics regularly myself, what your proposed solutions are. Would you perhaps care to share one or two sentences about that here on the blog?

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]]> By: SkepticSnarf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/chad-orzel-on-unscientific-america/comment-page-1/#comment-22949 SkepticSnarf Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:43:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/chad-orzel-on-unscientific-america/#comment-22949 hey Sheril and Chris, just wanted to say i got your book in the mail today, plan to start reading it tomorrow hey Sheril and Chris, just wanted to say i got your book in the mail today, plan to start reading it tomorrow

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