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	* [[Submission Guidelines]]		* [[Submission Guidelines]]
-	== Incident Reports ==	+	== Situation Briefings ==
-	* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]	+
-		+
-	== Situation Summaries ==	+
	* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]		* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
	* Intelligent Design		* Intelligent Design
	* Man-caused Climate Change		* Man-caused Climate Change
	* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles		* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
-	* Religious Attacks on Science
	* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People		* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
	* The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports		* The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
	* EPA Shenanigans		* EPA Shenanigans
		+	* Plan B
	* 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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	* "Mad Scientists"		* "Mad Scientists"
-	== Events ==	+	== In the 21st Century ==
-	Reports releases, Speeches,	+	* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
-	== 20th Century Anti-Scientism ==	+	== In the 20th Century ==
-	* Relativity as "Jewish Science"	+	* Nixon Abolished OST
		+	* The Apollo Mission
	* Lysenkoism		* Lysenkoism
	* The Scopes Trial		* The Scopes Trial
-	* Nixon Abolished OST	+	* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
-	== Historic Anti-Scientism ==	+	== The 19th Century & Before ==
		+	* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
		+	* Luddism
		+	* Benjamin Franklin
		+	* Thomas Jefferson
		+	* Newton
	* Galileo		* Galileo
-	* Newton
-	* Luddism
-	* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
	== People ==		== People ==
	=== Scientists ===		=== Scientists ===
	* David Baltimore		* David Baltimore
		+	* Vannevar Bush
	* Richard Dawkins		* Richard Dawkins
	* Freeman Dyson		* Freeman Dyson
	* Sir Arthur Eddington		* Sir Arthur Eddington
		+	* Albert Einstein
		+	* Richard Feynman
	* Stephen Jay Gould		* Stephen Jay Gould
	* Brian Greene		* Brian Greene
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	* Marvin Minsky		* Marvin Minsky
	* Philip Morrison		* Philip Morrison
		+	* J. Robert Oppenheimer
	* Roger Penrose		* Roger Penrose
	* Martin Rees		* Martin Rees
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	== Government ==		== Government ==
	=== Congress ===		=== Congress ===
		+	* The Office of Technology Assessment
	==== People ====		==== People ====
		+	* [[Lamar Alexander]]
	* [[Vern Ehlers]]		* [[Vern Ehlers]]
	* Rahm Emmanuel		* Rahm Emmanuel
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	== Organizations ==		== Organizations ==
	* ACLU		* ACLU
		+	* Exploratorium
	* James Randi Educational Foundation		* James Randi Educational Foundation
		+	* National Academy of Sciences
	* [[National Center for Science Education]]		* [[National Center for Science Education]]
	* SCICOP		* SCICOP
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	* ACLU Report on Politicization of Science		* ACLU Report on Politicization of Science
	* National Science Education Standards		* National Science Education Standards
		+	* NAS Report: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm"
-	== Interviews & Profiles ==	+	== Interviews ==
	== Journalism and Science News Reporting ==		== Journalism and Science News Reporting ==
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	== Education & Learning ==		== Education & Learning ==
	* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]		* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
-		+	* Science Textbooks
-	== Pseudo-Science ==	+
	== The Scientific Enterprise ==		== The Scientific Enterprise ==
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	== Essays ==		== Essays ==
	* What is the cost of anti-scientism?		* What is the cost of anti-scientism?
-	* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism	+	* Quantifying Anti-Scientism
-	* Attacks Distort the Scientific Process	+	* Distorting the Scientific Process
-	* The Anthropic Cosmological Principle	+
	* Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology		* Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
	* The Language of Science		* The Language of Science
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	== Timeline ==		== Timeline ==
		+	* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
	== Quotations ==		== Quotations ==
	* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]		* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]
	* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]		* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]

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Revision as of 03:54, 19 October 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 1 Introduction & Metatopics 2 Situation Briefings 3 In the 21st Century 4 In the 20th Century 5 The 19th Century & Before 6 People 6.1 Scientists 6.2 Science Writers 6.3 Other Writers 6.4 Still Others 7 Government 7.1 Congress 7.1.1 People 7.1.2 STEM Scorecards 7.1.3 Committees 7.1.4 Legislation 7.1.5 Hearings & Testimony 7.2 White House 7.3 Supreme Court 7.4 Federal Courts 7.5 Agencies 7.6 National Laboratories 7.7 Local Jurisdictions 8 Professional Societies 9 Organizations 9.1 Prizes 10 Reports and Recommendations 11 Interviews 12 Journalism and Science News Reporting 13 Education & Learning 14 The Scientific Enterprise 15 Philosophy of Science 16 Science & Society 17 Ideas in Science 18 Essays 19 Reading List 20 Timeline 21 Quotations

Introduction & Metatopics

• Ars Hermeneutica:About
• Science Besieged Project:About
• Status Briefing August 2005
• Style Manual
• Submission Guidelines

Situation Briefings

• Evolution and the Vatican
• Intelligent Design
• Man-caused Climate Change
• Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
• Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
• The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
• EPA Shenanigans
• Plan B
• 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 & Gravity
• Science on Trial
• Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
• "Mad Scientists"

In the 21st Century

• The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin

In the 20th Century

• Nixon Abolished OST
• The Apollo Mission
• Lysenkoism
• The Scopes Trial
• Relativity as "Jewish Science"

The 19th Century & Before

• Legislating the Vaue of Pi
• Luddism
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Newton
• Galileo

People

Scientists

• David Baltimore
• Vannevar Bush
• Richard Dawkins
• Freeman Dyson
• Sir Arthur Eddington
• Albert Einstein
• Richard Feynman
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Brian Greene
• Stephen Hawking
• Danny Hillis
• Gerald Holton
• Nicholas Humphrey
• Richard Leakey
• Benoit Mandelbrot
• Peter Medawar
• Marvin Minsky
• Philip Morrison
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Roger Penrose
• Martin Rees
• Colin Renfrew
• Oliver Sacks
• Carl Sagan
• John Maynard Smith
• Ian Stewart
• Lewis Thomas

Science Writers

• Natalie Angier
• James Burke
• Kenneth Chang [NYT]
• James Gleick
• Ben Goldacre [Guardian "Bad Science"]
• David Harris
• Chris Mooney
• John Allen Paulos
• David Quammen
• Richard Rhodes
• Michael Shermer
• Takashi Tachibana
• Carl Zimmer

Other Writers

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

Still Others

• Jacob Bronowski
• Jimmy Carter (his presidential library)
• Walter Cronkite
• James Randi
• Daniel Schorr

Government

Congress

• The Office of Technology Assessment

People

• Lamar Alexander
• Vern Ehlers
• Rahm Emmanuel
• Rush Holt
• Henry Waxman
• Frank Wolf

STEM Scorecards

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
• Exploratorium
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Center for Science Education
• SCICOP
• The Skeptic's Society
• UCS

Prizes

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
• NAS Report: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm"

Interviews

Journalism and Science News Reporting

• US Newspapers
• Foreign Newspapers

Education & Learning

• Statements on Teaching Evolution
• Science Textbooks

The Scientific Enterprise

• The Role of Skepticism

Philosophy of Science

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

Science & Society

• Science Prizes

Ideas in Science

Essays

• What is the cost of anti-scientism?
• Quantifying Anti-Scientism
• Distorting the Scientific Process
• Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
• The Language of Science
• Science: What Good is it?
• Poets vs. Scientists
• Scientific Hyperbole: Walking on Water
• "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
• Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo

Reading List

• Recommended Reading

Timeline

• 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity

Quotations

• Quotations: On Scientific Process
• Quotations: Science and Philosophy