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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on

January 16th, 2012. I'm Steve Merski. The National Center for Science

Education is the country's top resource for teachers, parents, students, and clergy when the

teaching of evolution in public school classrooms is threatened by religiously motivated

ideologues. But evolution is no longer the only science under threat in schools, which is why

the NCSE announced today that they are branching out. I called executive director Eugenie Scott

on January 13th to find out about their new initiative. Dr. Scott, great to talk to you as always.

I understand that you're adding, you decided to fight the war on two fronts.

Yeah, but it's not like we're bored with creationism, right? I mean, you know, it's not even, as we're talking, it's not even two weeks into the, into 2012.

And we already have five creationism pieces of

anti-evolution pieces of legislation submitted. So it's not like we're bored, but duty calls.

What can I say? Well, we can come back to those and talk. I know that there have been a couple

in New Hampshire, but why don't we talk about what this new front's going to be?

Well, as you mentioned, our expertise, and for the last over 20 years or so, NCSC has helped

teachers out at the grassroots level in their classroom problems or school board level

problems or state legislation, when problems

have arisen over the teaching of evolution, we provide them with advice and information

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