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1. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
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Show Reddit reviews2. A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
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"One of the earliest and most thoroughly-researched volumes on the emerging Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- at the time called "Chronic Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) Syndrome." This powerful book is the result of over two-and-one-half years of investigating and reporting the Chronic Fatigue story at the very beginning of the epidemic.
Writes the author, "While reporting the story you are about to read, I became convinced that governmental health agencies have done everything in their power to ignore, suppress, and even actively cover up the fact that there is a new epidemic sweeping the United States-that claimed Gilda Radner as one of its first fatalities." Here, compiled into one volume, is Neenyah Ostrom's compelling and still-relevant research."
https://www.amazon.com/What-Really-Killed-Gilda-Radner/dp/0962414212
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
https://www.amazon.com/Unscientific-America-Scientific-Illiteracy-Threatens/dp/046501917X
One of the authors has more of a journalism background, while the other has more of a scientific background. They're a great team! The book is a fast read and the principles I learned significantly improved my ability to communicate scientific concepts with a non-scientific audience.
Not a direct answer to your question, but a must read for anyone looking towards getting a PHD in STEM:
https://smile.amazon.com/PhD-Not-Enough-Survival-Science/dp/0465022227/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2923230482?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8
Insofar as your question is about voters being mostly ignorant about the issue they are supposed to vote about, that's an established and well-known observation in political science, as far as I know.
See Somin's Democracy and Political Ignorance, for instance. Another book in a similar vain would be The myth of the rational voter by Brian Caplan.
Both are associated with George Mason University, so you may not like what you read there. I know, it wasn't fun to read Caplan's book.
However, his basic explanation of rational irrationality can also be found in the works of Dan Kahan, including better evidence.
The problem has also been noted by others, see Democracy for Realists by Achen and Bartels.