<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/de0539a1-d1b2-451d-b8eb-b819663c9d8c/7051E02F-1D79-4EC5-9F9F-1274A0590615/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040167" href="http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040167" style="font-size: 11px;">biology.plosjournals.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040167"><H1><LAYER name="4c71935061234434b5e5de5b8af18343" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)" __old__title="" title="">Scientific Illiteracy and the Partisan Takeover of Biology</LAYER></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040167">Though some see the growing influence of ideology over scientific issues as a threat to America's standing as global science leader, <LAYER name="e775cf89c29a94b43c780533f14da31b" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">a leading analyst of public attitudes toward science sees it as an opportunity for increasing scientific literacy.</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040167">“Science happens so fast now that most adults couldn't possibly have learned about stem cells when they were in school.” And without this underlying schema, most people aren't going to pay attention to stem cells or any other unfamiliar scientific term. “People tune out things that they think are scientific or complicated,” he says. “If you are science averse and think you couldn't possibly know any science, the minute you hear ‘cell,’ ‘stem cell,’ ‘nanotechnology,’ ‘atomic,’ ‘nuclear,’ you turn the off switch.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7051E02F-1D79-4EC5-9F9F-1274A0590615/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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