What is Science?: Myths and Reality

I found this while searching for a book named similar to this which was about ‘myths about some scientific personalities' so I actually concluded it was about the same but it turned out to be something different. Here the author talked about general myths and distrust towards the scientific community and worse towards the scientific method. She has discussed several pointers on the communication gap between the scientists and the general mass, the lack of proper science education from educational institutions and above all the fearmongering and distrust perpetuated by several agenda-driven political commentators. Among all these what I found to be new was the lack of enthusiasm towards funding pure research with respect to applied research, which seems pretty dumb considering pure research is a stepping stone for applied research if I may give an analogy, it's like saying developing a computing game without knowing any of the programming languages.
My overall rating is 3.75/5, It felt too small lengthwise.