Ira Flatow and guests discuss how a presidential science debate can help voters decide if a candidate is up for the job.

Engineering Connections Between Politics and Science for the 21st Century symposium closing address. Presented by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Science Debate cofounder Shawn Otto

We are becoming increasingly paralyzed at the science gap—the gap between science and democracy. Can democracy survive as a means of self-governance in an age of science?

How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? Why might politically undeclared scientists join the GOP? MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.org's Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America.

Just from that title you might be tempted to leap to the conclusion that you’ve “been there, done that, bought the T-shirt”, and therefore convince yourself that you can skip this one. I would urge you to reconsider and watch it.

Chatting with “Science Friday” host Ira Flatow will be Science Debate co-founder Shawn Otto and former Congressman Vern Ehlers, R-Mich., who is a physicist and a co-chairman of Science Debate’s advisory board.

I wanted to explore the idea of having State-level Science Debates within Minnesota among candidates running here for federal office, but also, and especially, for state office.

The stigma against science in modern politics threatens the American democratic process.

As the best books do, Fool Me Twice has me thinking about the world in a new way and also contemplating some different ways I can interact with people.

In Fool Me Twice, Shawn Lawrence Otto narrates the evolution of science in America. His story begins with the beliefs of the founding Puritans and leads all the way to the climate-change and evolution deniers who influence policy today.

The next point that really interested me was the way the public's perception of science has changed over time.

Otto shines as he recounts the fractures between science and politics that developed following the Second World War.

A gripping, evocative memoir of the writer's childhood love for his criminal but all-too-human father

The Guardian has unearthed a shocking new propaganda plan intended to turn the American public against wind energy in the 2012 election cycle.

Climate Scientist Scott Mandia writes an open letter to State Farm Insurance.

The Heartland Institute is preparing a $100,000 school science curriculum on climate change coming to a school near you. Among their logical leaps is a new billboard featuring mass murderers and totalitarians who believe in climate change. This is science?