The Science of Why We Don't Believe in Science

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management presents journalist Chris Mooney as the 2014 Hans Jenny Memorial Lecturer. Mooney is author of Unscientific America and The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality (among others), and has contributed to a variety of other publications, including Slate, Salon.com, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Reason, The American Scholar, The Washington Monthly, the Utne Reader, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, the Washington City Paper and The Boston Globe. Mooney will join a panel discussion with faculty from ESPM and the graduate school of Journalism on the topic of the science/journalism interface.