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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.
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.
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== Introduction & Metatopics ==
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About]]
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* [[Science Besieged Project:About]]
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
== Incident Reports ==
== Incident Reports ==
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* Intelligent Design
* Intelligent Design
* Man-caused Climate Change
* Man-caused Climate Change
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* Pseudo-Science Supported by Government
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* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
* Religious Attacks on Science
* Religious Attacks on Science
* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
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* Eugenics
* Eugenics
* Hollywood & Physics
* Hollywood & Physics
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* Science on Trial
== Events ==
== Events ==
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* Rush Holt
* Rush Holt
* Henry Waxman
* Henry Waxman
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==== Committees ====
==== Legislation ====
==== Legislation ====
==== Hearings & Testimony ====
==== Hearings & Testimony ====
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== Reports and Recommendations ==
== Reports and Recommendations ==
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* Waxman's Report on Politicization of Science
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* UCS Report on Scientific Integrity
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* ACLU Report on Politicization of Science
* National Science Education Standards
* National Science Education Standards
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* Carnap
* Carnap
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== Essays and Briefings ==
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== Essays ==
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
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* What is the cost of anti-scientism?
* What is the cost of anti-scientism?
* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism

Revision as of 19:46, 28 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 Headlines
  • Social Darwinism
  • Eugenics
  • Hollywood & Physics
  • Science on Trial

Events

Reports releases, Speeches,

Historic Anti-Scientism

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

People

Scientists

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

Science Writers

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

Other Writers

Still Others

  • Jimmy Carter
  • James Randi
  • Daniel Schorr

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 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

Reading List

  • Recommended Reading

Quotations

Personal tools
science time-capsules