Subject: Re: note from NCSE
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/2/09, 15:35
To: Robert Luhn <luhn@ncseweb.org>

Hi, Robert-

Thanks for getting in touch. I'm very familiar with the NCSE and the work it does, and I may take you up on your offer of informational assistance in the future. Also, if the NCSE is in need of any humorous take-downs of anyone or any other written materials with which to promote the organization or get a particular point across, I'd be happy to provide them.

Incidentally, I also serve as director of communications for Enlighten the Vote, formerly GAMPAC; I'm barely 27 and not entirely well-versed in the particular mechanics of political advocacy or anything else other than writing, so if you have any general advice on how to go about promoting the PAC (for instance, sending out press releases), I'd love to hear them.

Don't hesitate to let me know if there's anything I can do for you and the NCSE.

Thanks again,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Robert Luhn <luhn@ncseweb.org> wrote:
Dear Mr. Brown:

Have been enjoying your posts on Huff and Vanity Fair. (And, of course, your classic "Flock of Dodos"). Hence this note!

I work for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the leading organization that promotes and defends the teaching of evolution in the public schools. (You might have seen us covered in the Nova documentary "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial". Then again, you may have talked with Genie Scott, our executive director, a dozen times. In which case, this note is moot!)

We've been involved in the issue for 25 years, and we're a ready resource should you ever need background information, access to independent experts (local and national), and more, for any future jottings you might tackle on evolution, creationism/ID, science denial, or related topics. There's a lot to talk about in this realm, notably, the spread of "academic freedom" bills designed to smuggle creationism back into the classroom (such as the one that passed in Louisiana), and state boards of education fiddling with science standards (as we've recently seen in Texas). Well...don't hesitate to contact us!

Yours,

Robert Luhn
Director of Communications
National Center for Science Education, Inc.
420 40th Street, Suite 2
Oakland, CA 94609-2509
510-601-7203 x314
fax: 510-601-7204
800-290-6006
luhn@ncse.com
www.ncse.com

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