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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