Aug 24, 2018
Stat: 44 percent. The percentage of Americans
who think the public doesn’t know enough about science to
understand new findings in the news.
Story: Ira Flatow, the host of “Science Friday,”
has been with National Public Radio since it went on the air in
1970. Although he knows the public loves science, he’s worried that
most people don’t know how the scientific process works. Pew’s Dan
LeDuc talks to him about why critical thinking is crucial, who asks
the best questions, and how science can be addictive.