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Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum

This is Your Brain on Politics


 

Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing disconnect between science and society. She has worked in the Senate on energy, climate, and ocean policy and helped found ScienceDebate2008. A former pop radio disc jockey and musician, Sheril is now a science writer and Seed blogger based at Duke University.

Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress, senior correspondent for The American Prospect magazine and author of two books - the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. He also writes “The Intersection” blog with Sheril Kirshenbaum.

 

Books by Chris Mooney:

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming The Republican War on Science