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* Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
* Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
* Stem-Cell Research
* Stem-Cell Research
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* Abstinence Only Sex Education
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* Abstinence-Only Sex Education
* Missile-Defense "Testing"
* Missile-Defense "Testing"
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* Bad Headlines
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* Bad Newspaper Headlines
* Social Darwinism
* Social Darwinism
* Eugenics
* Eugenics
* Hollywood & Physics
* Hollywood & Physics
* Science on Trial
* Science on Trial
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* The Vatican and Evolution
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* Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
== Events ==
== Events ==
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* Lysenkoism
* Lysenkoism
* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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* The Scopes Trial
* Nixon Abolished OST
* Nixon Abolished OST
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=== Scientists ===
=== Scientists ===
* Richard Dawkins
* Richard Dawkins
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* Stephen Jay Gould
 
* Sir Arthur Eddington
* Sir Arthur Eddington
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* Stephen Jay Gould
* Stephen Hawking
* Stephen Hawking
* Carl Sagan
* Carl Sagan
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* David Harris
* David Harris
* Chris Mooney
* Chris Mooney
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* David Quammen
* Michael Shermer [Scientific American]
* Michael Shermer [Scientific American]
* Takashi Tachibana [?]
* Takashi Tachibana [?]
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=== Other Writers ===
=== Other Writers ===
* Arthur C. Clarke
* Arthur C. Clarke
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* Martin Gardner
* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]
* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]
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* H. L. Mencken
* Bill Moyers
* Bill Moyers
* Robert Park
* Robert Park
=== Still Others ===
=== Still Others ===
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* Jimmy Carter
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* Jimmy Carter ([http://www.jimmycarterlibrarty.org | his presidential library]
* James Randi
* James Randi
* Daniel Schorr
* Daniel Schorr
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* Mathematical Association of America
* Mathematical Association of America
* National Academies of Science
* National Academies of Science
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* National Association of Science Writers
* National Science Teachers' Association
* National Science Teachers' Association
* Optical Society of America [x]
* Optical Society of America [x]
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* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
* Attacks Distort the Scientific Process
* Attacks Distort the Scientific Process
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* The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
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* Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
== Reading List ==
== Reading List ==

Revision as of 02:54, 29 September 2005

This outline is a working summary of our thoughts on articles in preparation, articles in process, written articles, and how to organize them most usefully.

Contents

Introduction & Metatopics

Incident Reports

Situation Summaries

  • Intelligent Design
  • Man-caused Climate Change
  • Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
  • Religious Attacks on Science
  • Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
  • The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
  • EPA Shenanigans
  • Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
  • Stem-Cell Research
  • Abstinence-Only Sex Education
  • Missile-Defense "Testing"
  • Bad Newspaper Headlines
  • Social Darwinism
  • Eugenics
  • Hollywood & Physics
  • Science on Trial
  • The Vatican and Evolution
  • Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives

Events

Reports releases, Speeches,

Historic Anti-Scientism

  • Galileo
  • Newton
  • Luddism
  • Lysenkoism
  • Relativity as "Jewish Science"
  • The Scopes Trial
  • Nixon Abolished OST

People

Scientists

  • Richard Dawkins
  • Sir Arthur Eddington
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Carl Sagan

Science Writers

  • Natalie Angier
  • Kenneth Chang [NYT]
  • Ben Goldacre [Guardian "Bad Science"]
  • David Harris
  • Chris Mooney
  • David Quammen
  • Michael Shermer [Scientific American]
  • Takashi Tachibana [?]
  • Carl Zimmer

Other Writers

  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Martin Gardner
  • Hendrik Hertzberg
  • H. L. Mencken
  • Bill Moyers
  • Robert Park

Still Others

Government

Congress

People

  • Vern Ehlers
  • Rahm Emmanuel
  • Rush Holt
  • Henry Waxman

Committees

Legislation

Hearings & Testimony

White House

  • OSTP
  • James Marburger

Supreme Court

Decisions

Federal Courts

Decisions

Agencies

  • National Science Foundation

National Laboratories

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos

Local Jurisdictions

Professional Societies

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • American Association of Physics Teachers
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Geological Institute
  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Institute of Biological Sciences
  • American Institute of Physics
  • American Institute of Professional Geologists
  • American Mathematical Society
  • American Medical Association
  • American Physical Society
  • American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • American Society of Engineering Education
  • Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Association for Women in Science
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • Council on Undergraduate Research
  • Engineering Deans Council
  • Federation of Materials Societies
  • Geological Society of America
  • IEEE
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
  • Materials Research Society
  • Mathematical Association of America
  • National Academies of Science
  • National Association of Science Writers
  • National Science Teachers' Association
  • Optical Society of America [x]
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • SPIE

Organizations

  • ACLU
  • James Randi Educational Foundation
  • National Center for Science Education
  • SCICOP
  • UCS

Reports and Recommendations

  • Waxman's Report on Politicization of Science
  • UCS Report on Scientific Integrity
  • ACLU Report on Politicization of Science
  • National Science Education Standards

Interviews & Profiles

Journalism and Science News Reporting

  • US Newspapers
  • Foreign Newspapers

Education & Learning

Pseudo-Science

Scientific Process

  • The Greeks
  • Bacon
  • Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem
  • Carnap

Essays

  • What is the cost of anti-scientism?
  • Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
  • Attacks Distort the Scientific Process
  • The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
  • Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology

Reading List

  • Recommended Reading

Quotations

Personal tools
science time-capsules