Science, nonscience, and nonsense : approaching environmental literacy / Michael Zimmerman.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

xvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Includes index

A personal reflection -- Scientific illiteracy: from "creation science" to graphology -- Anecdote, coincidence and pattern: understanding the language of science -- Political science: the role of government in the scientific process -- Global environmental problems: a small look at the big picture -- Endandered species -- Better living through chemistry -- You are what you eat -- Land of many abuses -- Myths of the technological fix -- Prospects.