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* American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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* American Society of Engineering Education
* American Society of Engineering Education

Revision as of 04:10, 4 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

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 Newspaper Headlines
  • Social Darwinism
  • Eugenics
  • Hollywood & Gravity
  • Science on Trial
  • The Vatican and Evolution
  • 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

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
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Philip Morrison
  • Roger Penrose
  • Martin Rees
  • Colin Renfrew,
  • Carl Sagan
  • John Maynard Smith
  • Ian Stewart

Science Writers

  • Natalie Angier
  • 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

Still Others

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

Position Summaries

Organizations

  • ACLU
  • James Randi Educational Foundation
  • National Center for Science Education
  • SCICOP
  • The Skeptic's Society
  • 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 Enterprise

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

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

Reading List

  • Recommended Reading

Timeline

Quotations

Personal tools
science time-capsules