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Defend Science Reading List


In the course of working on the Defend Science initiative, many books and writings have been brought to our attention.  What follows is a nowhere near exhaustive list of books we have found helpful:

With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House by Esther Kaplan. 

The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney. 

Undermining Science - Suppression And Distortion in the Bush Administration by Seth Shulman

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore.

Stem Cell Now - A Brief Introduction to the Coming Medical Revolution
Christopher Thomas Scott (Executive Director, Stem Cells in Society Program, Stanford University)

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing The Climate and What It Means For Life On Earth by Tim Flannery

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore.

The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters by Ardea Skybreak 

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott and Niles Eldredge 

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan 

The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change by Stephen R. Palumbi

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