Baker Institute speaker calls on scientists to adapt to counter ‘scientific illiteracy’

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

The U.S. public has a “dysfunctional” relationship with science, author Chris Mooney told an audience Feb. 5 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and scientists need to engage in a “new project of public outreach” to deal with it.

	GEORGE WONG
	The U.S. public has a “dysfunctional” relationship with science, author Chris Mooney told an audience Feb. 5 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and scientists need to engage in a “new project of public outreach” to deal with it.

Mooney, a 2009