From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body
of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.
While this prevailing opinion
of nonscience graduates is rarely valid, there is an undeniable advantage to having a science degree.
Not exact matches
As worthy as these scientists» scientific and public achievements are, when the average person can name maybe five science celebrities at the most — but could probably name more than 1000
nonscience celebrities (I'm just guessing, but if you have a few hours, try it)-- it's time to admit that we're using the word «celebrity» differently than the rest
of the world is.
Science Careers discusses the value
of teaching science to
nonscience majors and a podcast segment addresses the effects
of teacher quality on early reading.
Those who pursued
nonscience or applied science degrees («artsies,» as my mechanical engineering father and brother called them) were not up to the challenge to succeed in the real world
of numbers and rigorous scientific experimentation.
The increasingly popular middle course,
of doing one science and two
nonscience A levels, may be interesting and even broadly educative, but is no use to anyone considering studying science further into higher education.
In fact, most
of my friends from graduate school were
nonscience majors.
In his 2010 book Nonsense on Stilts (University
of Chicago Press), philosopher
of science Massimo Pigliucci concedes that there is «no litmus test,» because «the boundaries separating science,
nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe.»
Nonscience parts
of the space program have borne the brunt
of the cuts, but a bevy
of science missions are also at risk, including the resurrection
of Russia's lunar program.
But a recent informal study
of 17,000 reviews done under the new system found that just 48 % addressed the
nonscience criterion.
These concerns lie at the heart
of an important book, The Myth
of Scientific Literacy by Morris Shamos, who has spent many years in the US trying to communicate science to
nonscience students.
Enough
of this «greenhouse
nonscience»... the study needed to protect «life as we know it» needing MORE «Public notice / concern» is in the production & consistent persistence
of the Planetary Dipole, in both it's processes
of production AND continuance.