Sheril Kirshenbaum (born May 24, 1980) is an American science writer and scientist. She co-authored ''Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future'' with Chris Mooney, and wrote ''The Science of Kissing''. She also co-founded and led Science Debate, a nonprofit organization with a stated goal of restoring science to its rightful place in politics. Sheril currently works at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

and hosts ''Serving Up Science'' on

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of ed ...

''.'' Her research focuses on scientific decision-making in Congress. She is of

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

descent.

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