INDEX
A Brief History of Time (Hawking)
Academic specialization
America COMPETES Act of 2007,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Dialect Society
American Jewish Congress
American Scholar, The
America’s Lab Report (National Academy of Sciences)
An Inconvenient Truth (movie; Gore)
Angels & Demons (Brown)
Anti-intellectualism
Bacon, Francis
Back to the Future
Baltimore, David
Barthes, Roland
Bates, Bill
Blitzer, Wolf
Blogging, science. See Science blogging
Boston Globe
Boyle, Robert
Brand, Stewart
Brockman, John
Brown, Dan
Browne, Sylvia
Bruno, Giordano
Buckley, William F.
Bush, George W.. See also Bush administration
Bush, Vannevar
Bush administration
Cable News Network. See CNN
Cameron, James
Carson, Johnny
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Catholic League
CBS Corporation
Center for American Progress
Central Conference of American Rabbis
CERN. See European Organization for Nuclear Research
Chapman, Matthew
Chu, Steven
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clergy Letter Project
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
CNN (Cable News Network)
Colbert, Stephen
Colbert Report, The
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Wilson)
Contact (movie; Sagan)
Cook, Webster
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Core, The (movie)
Cosmos (PBS; Sagan)
Cosmos (book)
Council on Competitiveness
Creationism
intelligent design
Crichton, Michael
Cronkite, Walter
Culture wars
Cyrus, Miley
Daily Kos
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The
Dante’s Peak (movie)
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Emma
Dawkins, Richard
Day After Tomorrow, The (movie)
“Deficit model,”
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan)
Dennett, Daniel C.
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René
Diamond, Jared
Discover (magazine)
Discover Blogs (website)
Draper, John
Druyan, Ann
Economic competitiveness
Economic stimulus package (2009)
Education
as the solution to scientific illiteracy
economic competitiveness and science
inadequacies of current science
interdisciplinary
science emphasized in public schools
of scientists (see Scientist education)
teaching of evolution
Edward, John
Ehlers, Vernon
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Energy policy
Entertainment media
Hollywood-science collaboration, potential for
Hollywood-science relations
“reality” and “realism” in
science and scientists, depiction of
scientific inaccuracy and
Environmental Protection Agency
E.T. (movie)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
European Union, scientific illiteracy in
Evolution
ignored or rejected by many Americans
in courtroom
as religiously contested issue
right-wing documentary focusing on
strategies for de-escalating battle over
as a “universal acid,”
Expelled! (movie)
Facebook (website)
Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative (Center for American Progress)
Faust (Goethe)
Federal Communications Commission
Feynman, Richard
Finding Nemo (movie)
Forensic science
Foster, Jodie
Foucault, Michel
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin Institute
Galileo Galilei
Gates, Bill
Gattaca (movie)
General Convention of the Episcopal Church
General Electric
Geoengineering
Geological Survey, U.S.
George C. Marshall Institute
Gingrich, Newt
Gleick, James
Global warming
bloggers’ response to George Will on
denial and misinformation concerning
geoengineering in response to
Hollywood movies on (An Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow)
long-range projections regarding
media coverage of
cause of ocean acidification
partisan political beliefs regarding
political failures regarding
God Delusion, The (Dawkins)
Golden, Frederic
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordon, Bart
Gore, Al
Gould, Stephen Jay
“Great Desecration,”
Greenberg, Daniel
Gross, Paul R.
Gunderson, Martin
Harris, Sam
Hauptman, Herbert
Hawke, Ethan
Hawking, Stephen
Higher Superstition (book)
Hill, Lister
History of American science (modern)
commitment to pure research and the disconnect between science and society
conservative opposition: Reagan and heirs
conservative opposition: the George W. Bush administration
political difficulties in the 1970s,
the popular-science boom and resistance to popularization
popular books and the “third culture,”
post-World War II heyday
the Science Wars
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (Draper)
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, A (White)
Hitchens, Christopher
Hofstadter, Richard
HoneyShrunk the Kids (movie)
Honeywell
Howard, Ron
Huffington Post (website)
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Independence Day (movie)
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Internet, the
opportunities created by
science, as source of information on(see also Science blogging)
transformative impact on news media
vaccine skeptics on
Weblog awards
Invitrogen
Jastrow, Robert
John A. Knauss Sea Grant fellowship program
Jones, Malcolm
Jurassic Park (movie)
Kaplan, Marty
Kennedy, John F.
Kepler, Johannes
Keystone Center
Killian, James
King, Larry
Kingsley, Charles
Kirshenbaum, Sheril
Krauss, Lawrence
Kristeva, Julia
Lane, Neal
Lang, Fritz
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Latour, Bruno
Levitt, Norman
Lewenstein, Bruce
Life extension
Nader, Ralph
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Association of Science Writers
National Defense Education Act
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Postdoctoral Association
National Review
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Naturalism, methodological and philosophical
Neuroscience
New Atheist movement
New Mexico
New York Times
News Corp
News media
collapse of science coverage by
deregulation and concentration of ownership, impact on science coverage of
the Internet and (see also Internet, the and Science blogging)
journalists and scientists, cultural divide between
media trends, impact on science coverage of
the popular-science movement of the 1980s
science bloggers and(see also Science blogging)
science journalism during and after World War II
ScienceDebate2008, ignoring of
technological change, impact on science coverage of
Newsweek
Newton, Isaac
Nixon, Richard
“Nuclear winter” hypothesis
Palin, Sarah
Paranormal, the
Pennock, Robert
Peterson, Collin
Petricca, Joe
Pew Research Center for People and the Press
Pharyngula (blog). See also Myers, Paul Zachary
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy (blog)
Philosophical naturalism
Piel, Gerald
Pinker, Steven
Pluto
Podesta, John
Politics and science
anti-intellectualism in(see also Anti-intellectualism)
Congress members and
divorce between
growing divide in 1970s
political communication by scientists, need for effective
political engagement, scientists’ avoidance of
political mobilization of scientists (see ScienceDebate2008)
rapport during the 1950s and early 1960s
Reagan, Republicans, and conservatives vs. science (see also Bush administration; Republican Party)
Postmodernism
Post-structuralism
President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
Princeton University, Climate Central
Project for Excellence in Journalism
Prometheus, story of
Public, the
anti-intellectualism of
characteristics needed in
compatibility of science and religion, belief in
religious affiliation and beliefs of
science, opinion of and interest in
the science-society gap (see Science-society disconnect/gap)
scientific illiteracy of (see Scientific illiteracy)
Reagan, Ronald
Reagan administration, damage done to science by
Receiver-oriented communication
Redstone, Sumner
Religion
counterproductive New Atheist attacks on
evolution controversy and (see Evolution)
faith and science, compatibility of
faith and science, history of relations between
faith and science, alleged conflict between
methodological naturalism of science and
popular beliefs informed by
science and, tensions between
scientists’ views on
third culture and
Religious Right
Republican Party(See also Bush administration; Reagan administration)
ResearchAmerica
Respectful Insolence (website)
Revkin, Andrew
Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Academy of Sciences)
Roman Catholic Church
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Russert, Tim
Sagan, Carl
as communicator of science
and Hollywood
biographical details
fears about the future
political activism and effectiveness of
science and religion relationship, position on
the scientific community’s treatment of
Schieffer, Bob
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science: The Endless Frontier (Bush)
Science and scientists
anti-popularization sentiments among
communication as a central focus of, need for (see also Scientist education)
the “deficit model” of scientific illiteracy and(see also Scientific illiteracy)
embrace of in other nations
future research and possible controversies
history of American (see History of American science)
Hollywood, complaints about (see Entertainment media)
journalists and, cultural divide between(see also News media)
methodological naturalism of
New Atheist misconception of
politics and (see Politics and science)
popularizers of(see also Sagan, Carl)
prospects for in American politics and society(see also United States)
religious faith and(see also Religion)
responsibility for bridging the “two cultures” gap (see also Science-society disconnect/gap; Scientist education)
Sagan, punishment for popular endeavors of
ScienceDebate2008, support for
status in American politics and society
Science blogging
anti-popularization sentiment in
benefits of
the “Great Desecration,”
fragmentation and
growth of
problems/inadequacies of
the Weblog awards vote as commentary on
See also Internet, the
Science Digest
Science Illustrated
Science Progress
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Science Wars, the
ScienceDebate2008
Bush “war on science,” as response to
the Internet and
lessons learned from
news media, lack of coverage by
proposal for and politicians’ ignoring of
Science
Science-society disconnect/gap
dangers and challenges of a continuing
politics and (see Politics and science)
the popular-science boom and the Republican backlash of the 1980s
pure research, commitment to and impact on science communication
scientific illiteracy as explanation for (see Scientific illiteracy)
strategy for eliminating (see Scientist education)
“two cultures” argument regarding
in the United States
Scientific American
Scientific Communications Act of 2007
Scientific illiteracy
conventional argument regarding
the “deficit model” and
definition of
individual intelligence and
Scientist education
attrition from science, factors encouraging
economic competitiveness and
inadequacies of current
as strategy for reconnecting science and society
SDI. See Star Wars
Seed
Seed Media Group
6th Day, The (movie)
Snow. P.
Social Text
Sokal, Alan
Source-oriented communication
Spielberg, Steven
Sputnik
Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI)
Stein, Ben
Stephanopoulos, George
Stern, Alan
Strategic Defense Initiative. See Star Wars
Superconducting Super Collider