It's titled The Geek Manifesto: Why science matters
Yours truly gets a mention on page 4 no less and the Nightingale Collaboration gets a couple of mentions later on (and both Maria and I have our own entries in the index!).Review
With over a decade of experience as the science correspondent for the Times, Henderson has seen it all. Today science is enjoying unprecedented coverage in the media and recognition in popular culture. Here is the account of how and why this has happened, how science works and how it is perceived, warts and all.. Fascinating stuff. --Jim Al-Khalili
In this timely and important book, Mark Henderson explains why Geeks are on the march - and why the world will become a better place as a result.
--Tim Harford
Mark Henderson's new book shows that CP Snow's 'Two Cultures' are still all too apparent in today's society, and also charts the frustrating tussle for power between forces of irrationality and the rational over recent years. Henderson advances a compelling argument that we shouldn't be ashamed of rational thinking, but instead, we need to recognise and embrace the importance of science in our politics, education, economy and culture. --Professor Alice Roberts
Book Description
One of Britain's leading science communicators makes an agenda-setting argument that scientific evidence is crucial to all aspects of public life with a rallying call to all geeks and wannabe geeks to take action.
I've not bought it yet, but Mark is at Westminster Skeptics in the Pub on Monday so I'll get one then - it looks like a great read!
Mark also has a column in today's Guardian:
We need an Office for Scientific Responsibility
Politics doesn't value evidence-based policy, but policy-based evidence. It's time for ministers to realise that science matters