The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has been started to combat what its founder, Richard Dawkins, sees as a societal backlash against (you guessed it) reason and science:
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity. But it must be a positive attack, for science and reason have so much to give. They are not just useful, they enrich our lives in the same kind of way as the arts do. Promoting science as poetry was one of the things that Carl Sagan did so well, and I aspire to continue his tradition.
Dawkins is doing good work here, fighting the forces of ignorance, bigotry, and dogmatism. Visit the site, donate if you can, and join the battle.
[Via Pharyngula]
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