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Contents 1 Introduction & Metatopics 2 Incident Reports 3 Situation Summaries 4 Events 5 20th Century Anti-Scientism 6 Historic Anti-Scientism 7 People 7.1 Scientists 7.2 Science Writers 7.3 Other Writers 7.4 Still Others 8 Government 8.1 Congress 8.1.1 People 8.1.2 STEM Scorecards 8.1.3 Committees 8.1.4 Legislation 8.1.5 Hearings & Testimony 8.2 White House 8.3 Supreme Court 8.4 Federal Courts 8.5 Agencies 8.6 National Laboratories 8.7 Local Jurisdictions 9 Professional Societies 10 Organizations 10.1 Prizes 11 Reports and Recommendations 12 Interviews & Profiles 13 Journalism and Science News Reporting 14 Education & Learning 15 Pseudo-Science 16 The Scientific Enterprise 17 Philosophy of Science 18 Science & Society 19 Ideas in Science 20 Essays 21 Reading List 22 Timeline 23 Quotations

Introduction & Metatopics

• Ars Hermeneutica:About
• Science Besieged Project:About
• Status Briefing August 2005

Incident Reports

• The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin

Situation Summaries

• Evolution and the Vatican
• 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 & Gravity
• Science on Trial
• Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
• "Mad Scientists"

Events

Reports releases, Speeches,

20th Century Anti-Scientism

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

Historic Anti-Scientism

• Galileo
• Newton
• Luddism
• Legislating the Vaue of Pi

People

Scientists

• David Baltimore
• Richard Dawkins
• Freeman Dyson
• Sir Arthur Eddington
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Brian Greene
• Stephen Hawking
• Danny Hillis
• Gerald Holton
• Nicholas Humphrey
• Richard Leakey
• Benoit Mandelbrot
• Peter Medawar
• Marvin Minsky
• Philip Morrison
• 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
• Sam 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

People

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

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
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• 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

Interviews & Profiles

Journalism and Science News Reporting

• US Newspapers
• Foreign Newspapers

Education & Learning

• Statements on Teaching Evolution

Pseudo-Science

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?
• Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
• Attacks Distort the Scientific Process
• The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
• 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

Quotations

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