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From Scienticity

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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 7.2.1 Presidents 7.2.2 Vice Presidents 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
• Style Manual
• Submission Guidelines

Situation Briefings

• Evolution and the Vatican
• Status Briefing August 2005
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• 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
• Statements on Teaching Evolution

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
• John Allen Paulos
• 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
• James Gleick
• Ben Goldacre
• 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
• Walter Cronkite
• James Randi
• Daniel Schorr

Government

Congress

• House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office home
• House Committee on Science home
• Office of Technology Assessment
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation home

People

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

STEM Scorecards

Committees

Legislation

Hearings & Testimony

White House

• OSTP
• President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
• Presidential Science Advisors

Presidents

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Jimmy Carter (his presidential library)

Vice Presidents

• Al Gore

Supreme Court

Decisions

Federal Courts

Decisions

Agencies

• Department of Energy
• 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 Books in
  • Readings in Numeracy
  • Readings in Science
  • Readings in Scientific Biography
  • Readings in History of Science
  • Readings in Science and Society
  • Readings in Philosophy of Science

Timeline

• 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity

Quotations

• Quotations: On Scientific Process
• Quotations: Science and Philosophy
• Quotations: Science in the United States