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From Scienticity

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Contents 1 Incident Reports 2 Situation Summaries 3 Events 4 Historic Anti-Scientism 5 People 5.1 Scientists 5.2 Science Writers 5.3 Other Writers 5.4 Still Others 6 Government 6.1 Congress 6.1.1 People 6.1.2 Legislation 6.1.3 Hearings & Testimony 6.2 White House 6.3 Supreme Court 6.4 Federal Courts 6.5 Agencies 6.6 National Laboratories 6.7 Local Jurisdictions 7 Professional Societies 8 Organizations 9 Reports and Recommendations 10 Interviews & Profiles 11 Journalism and Science News Reporting 12 Education & Learning 13 Pseudo-Science 14 Scientific Process 15 Essays and Briefings 16 Reading List 17 Quotations

Incident Reports

Situation Summaries

• Intelligent Design
• Man-caused Climate Change
• Pseudo-Science Supported by Government
• 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

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

• Arthur C. Clarke
• Hendrik Hertzberg
• Bill Moyers
• Robert Park

Still Others

• Jimmy Carter
• James Randi
• Daniel Schorr

Government

Congress

People

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

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

• 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 and Briefings

• Status Briefing August 2005
• What is the cost of anti-scientism?
• Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
• Attacks Distort the Scientific Process

Reading List

• Recommended Reading

Quotations