NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2017/11/10
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A preview of Antony Alumkal's Paranoid Science.
A PREVIEW OF PARANOID SCIENCE NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview of Antony Alumkal's Paranoid Science: The Christian Right's War on Reality (New York University Press, 2017). The preview consists of chapter 4, "Seeing Red Over Green Evangelicals: The Crusade against Environmentalism," which discusses the development of "the contemporary evangelical anti-environmental movement," "the 'champion' of paranoia among Christian Right movements challenging science." "Paranoid Science is a reliable and insightful guide to the fever swamps of evangelical science denial. A gripping, disturbing, and important contribution," wrote NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch, while Publishers Weekly praised its "rich, nuanced, and detailed view of mid-20th-century American evangelicalism’s right-wing political expression and its often dangerous impact on science in the service of the common good." For the preview (PDF), visit: https://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/excerpt--paranoid.pdf And for information about the book from its publisher, visit: https://nyupress.org/books/9781479827138/ WHAT'S NEW AT NCSE'S BLOG? Have you been visiting NCSE's blog recently? If not, then you've missed: * Ann Reid reporting on her trip to accept the California Science Teachers Association's award to NCSE: https://ncse.com/blog/2017/11/california-teachers-honor-ncse-0018644 For NCSE's blog, visit: http://ncse.com/blog Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600 Oakland CA 94612-2922 510-601-7203 fax 510-788-7971 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's blog: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join