Eugenie Scott | |
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 Scott in May 2014 | |
| Born | October 24, 1945 |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (BS, MS) University of Missouri (PhD) |
| Occupation | National Center for Science Education Advisor |
| Awards | Public Welfare Medal (2010), Richard Dawkins Award (2012) |
| Website | ncse |
| Notes | |
Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined the term "Gish gallop" to describe a fallacious rhetorical technique of overwhelming an interlocutor with as many individually weak arguments as possible, in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument.
From 1986 to 2014,[1] Scott served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit science education organization supporting teaching of evolutionary science. Since 2013, Scott has been listed on their advisory council.[2]
Scott serves on the Board of Trustees of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.[3] Scott is a member of the Board of Advisers for the publication, Scientific American. She is also a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and GWUP.
- ^ "Eugenie C. Scott: About". Facebook.com/eugenie.c.scott. Facebook. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "Advisory Council". ncse.com. National Center for Science Education. 2008-07-15. Archived from the original on 2013-08-10. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ "Who we are". au.org. Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Retrieved 14 June 2018.