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A Thanksgiving Postcard from Mars

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Thankscience with the SciSchmooze

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Family, Friends, and Science with the SciSchmooze

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from the desk of Herb Masters

Greetings Science and Reason Fans,

Let’s start this out by welcoming Chabot Space & Science Cente

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SciSchmoozing Events & Issues

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SciSchmoozing in Orange & Black

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Happy Halloween, y’all.

Take a look at the above illustration. To me it resembles a monstrous lupine head, jaws wide, confronting a screaming person with arms held straight. In reality, it was lava flowing down the side of Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands last week. Here’s a truly scary thought: Dinosaur sex. ¿How about avian dinosaurs reproducing
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Decoding 42 with the SciSchmooze

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Nobel Ig Nobel with the SciSchmooze

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SciSchmoozing Uncertainty

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WHAT: Science under Siege

From pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever before. But our efforts to effectively address these existential crises are frequently hampered by a common threat: politically and ideologically motivated opposition to science.
Michael Mann and public health scientist Peter Hotez will discuss their collaboration that examines the five main forces behind the modern-day anti-science movement: plutocrats, pros, petrostates, phonies, and the press. This presentation is both a call to arms and a roadmap for dismantling the forces of anti-science, empowering ourselves to promote scientific truth and, ultimately, averting disaster.

WHO:
Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM).
Dr. Peter Jay Hotez is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control. He serves as founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine.

WHEN: Thursday, April 3 at 4:00 PM PT

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Paul A. Lombardo

Apes, Men, and Morons: Eugenics, Evolution, and the Scopes Centennial

The “Monkey Trial” Centennial provides an opportunity to examine the widespread misunderstanding about how ideas of evolution and eugenics were implicated in the famous Scopes controversy. George William Hunter’s textbook Civic Biology was the focus of the case. It endorsed evolution, a theory “that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible” —content prohibited by a 1925 Tennessee law.

The Hunter text also contained a brief discussion of eugenics. In recent years an elaborate mythology has arisen suggesting that the case, and William Jennings Bryan’s advocacy at trial, represented a challenge to eugenics. That claim is not accurate. The teaching of eugenics in its many forms was supported not only by educators, but also by members of the clergy and politicians all across the United States. That support was evident before the Scopes case and continued for decades afterwards, persisting even in full awareness of the Nazi government program that sterilized almost ½ million Germans.

This talk will explain that while William Jennings Bryan rejected the monkey- to-man account of evolution and the cruelties he associated with Darwinian “natural selection,” he made no blanket condemnation of eugenics. To the contrary, Bryan and his wife readily allied themselves with several famous eugenicists and supported eugenic ideology when it coincided with the social policies they favored.

PRESENTER: Paul A. Lombardo is an American legal historian known for his work on the legacy of eugenics and sterilization in the United States. Lombardo’s foundational research corrected the historical record of the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell. He found Carrie Buck’s school grades^[1] and the grades of her child Vivian.^[2] He was the last person to interview her, and he discovered the pictures of all three generations of the Buck family.^[3] In 2002, he sponsored and paid for a memorial plaque that was installed in Buck’s hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Seth Andrews
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Forrest Valkai
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Dr. Eugenie Scott
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Susan Gerbic
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Dr Rodney Schmaltz
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