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* [[Submission Guidelines]]
* [[Submission Guidelines]]
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== Incident Reports ==
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== Situation Briefings ==
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* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
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== Situation Summaries ==
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* [[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
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* 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
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* 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"
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== Events ==
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== In the 21st Century ==
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Reports releases, Speeches,  
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* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
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== 20th Century Anti-Scientism ==
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== In the 20th Century ==
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* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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* Nixon Abolished OST
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* The Apollo Mission
* Lysenkoism
* Lysenkoism
* The Scopes Trial
* The Scopes Trial
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* Nixon Abolished OST
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* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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== Historic Anti-Scientism ==
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== The 19th Century & Before ==
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* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
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* Luddism
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* Benjamin Franklin
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* Thomas Jefferson
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* Newton
* Galileo
* Galileo
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* Newton
 
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* Luddism
 
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* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
 
== People ==
== People ==
=== Scientists ===
=== Scientists ===
* David Baltimore
* David Baltimore
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* Vannevar Bush
* Richard Dawkins
* Richard Dawkins
* Freeman Dyson
* Freeman Dyson
* Sir Arthur Eddington
* Sir Arthur Eddington
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* Albert Einstein
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* Richard Feynman
* Stephen Jay Gould
* Stephen Jay Gould
* Brian Greene
* Brian Greene
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* Marvin Minsky
* Marvin Minsky
* Philip Morrison
* Philip Morrison
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* J. Robert Oppenheimer
* Roger Penrose
* Roger Penrose
* Martin Rees
* Martin Rees
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== Government ==
== Government ==
=== Congress ===
=== Congress ===
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* The Office of Technology Assessment
==== People ====
==== People ====
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* [[Lamar Alexander]]
* [[Vern Ehlers]]
* [[Vern Ehlers]]
* Rahm Emmanuel
* Rahm Emmanuel
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== Organizations ==
== Organizations ==
* ACLU
* ACLU
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* Exploratorium
* James Randi Educational Foundation
* James Randi Educational Foundation
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* 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
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* NAS Report: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm"
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== Interviews & Profiles ==
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== 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]]
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* Science Textbooks
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== Pseudo-Science ==
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== 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?
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* Ways to Quantify Anti-Scientism
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* Quantifying Anti-Scientism
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* Attacks Distort the Scientific Process
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* Distorting the Scientific Process
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* The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
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* 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 ==
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
== Quotations ==
== Quotations ==
* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]
* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]
* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]
* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]

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

Introduction & Metatopics

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

In the 20th Century

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

The 19th Century & Before

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

Government

Congress

  • The Office of Technology Assessment

People

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

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

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

Personal tools
science time-capsules