Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt is a book that explores the roots of the public mistrust of science and offers solutions for both the nonscientific and scientific communities. It highlights the academic scientific community's disregard for the broader public, obsession with winning grants, ignorance of political landmines, limited entrance of minorities, and permitting fraud in the pursuit of notoriety. Sutter provides actionable solutions and an ideal and healthy scientific approach to lead to greater public trust.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt is a book that Publishers Weekly describes as an ardent appraisal of what ails the scientific establishment. Written by Paul M. Sutter, a seasoned astrophysicist with extensive experience in both academia and the scientific community, the book delves into the roots of the public mistrust of science. Sutter argues that the current distrust of science within the academic scientific community itself is the primary cause of this problem. Throughout the book, Sutter exposes a community that has become disconnected from the broader public, obsessed with winning grants, ignoring political landmines, limiting the entrance of minorities, and permitting fraud in the pursuit of notoriety. He frames these issues as a vicious cycle, where public mistrust and misunderstanding of science lead to fewer funding opportunities, which in turn lead to more competition within science, which leads to a rise in fraud, and so on. Sutter addresses each of these vices through the lens of a vicious cycle, and he also explores the historical context of each issue in order to identify its root causes. In each chapter, Sutter provides actionable solutions for both the nonscientific and scientific communities, as well as what he regards as an ideal and healthy scientific approach, which will lead to greater public trust.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538181614