Science and Anti-Science [51min]

A judge in Pennsylvania ruled intelligent design could not be taught in high school biology classes. We'll talk about the case and the claims of some that there is a growing anti-science bias in the U.S. Guests: David Guston, associate director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and professor, Political Science, Arizona State University; Robert Hazen, staff scientist, Carnegie Institution, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University, and author of Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin published by Joseph Henry Press, National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Philip Pizzo, Dean, School of Medicine, Stanford University and professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology; Margaret Talbot, contributing writer at The New Yorker, senior fellow at New America Foundation.