Do you care whether our government's policies are based on sound science? Worried about health or your kids' science education? Want to know what's up with climate change and energy? Or what we're doing to build the next great American economy?

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Are we losing what made America great?
A Debate on Science and America’s Future

"Given the many urgent scientific and technological challenges facing America and the rest of the world, the increasing need for accurate scientific information in political decision making, and the vital role scientific innovation plays in spurring economic growth and competitiveness, we call for public debates in which the U.S. presidential and congressional candidates share their views on the issues of The Environment, Health and Medicine, and Science and Technology Policy."

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Fool Me Twice book coverScience Debate cofounder and CEO Shawn Lawrence Otto's book Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America will be published by Rodale Books on October 11, 2011.

The book covers the science debate initiative, recounts the history of America's science/policy/politics relationship, explores why we have arrived at an historically antiscience period in US history, and tells what we can - and must - do to turn it around.

"Whenever the people are well informed,” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “they can be trusted with their own government.”

But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than 2 percent of Congress with any professional background in science, how can our government be trusted to lead us in the right direction?

For more information or to be among the first to own this book, you may preorder your copy here.