Alan Leshner
Alan Leshner
Alan Leshner is a scientist, educator and public servant from the United States...
critical easily fragile lead lose
We could very easily lose the fragile lead we now have if we don't make the critical investments right now. Everyone else is doing it.
people different fields
Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.
mean principles belief
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
drug-use psychedelic recreational-drugs
There is no such thing as recreational drug use.
We know way too little about all those variables.
nation rolling
We are not rolling over on this. It's too important to the nation and to the nation's children.
concerns ecstasy levels
It's what Ecstasy does to serotonin levels that concerns us most right now,
crisis effort health mounting order public
We're collectively mounting this effort in order to try and fend off what could become another public health crisis in this country.
cloak cut line merit normal science steps trying wearing
They're trying to cut in line and not go through the normal steps to merit wearing the cloak of science. They just want to take on the cloak of science because they like the credibility that comes with it.
call concept designer scientific theory
Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory. The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.
call concept designer scientific theory
Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory, ... The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.
admittedly basis design recent religious scientific simply version
Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious concept. There is no scientific basis to intelligent design.
brings religion science straight
The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom,