NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Shawn Otto's The War on Science (Milkweed Editions, 2016). The preview consists of the first twenty pages of chapter 12, "Battle Plans," discussing ways of defending science; it includes a description of NCSE as "on the front lines of the battle to prevent efforts to change school textbooks to include intelligent design and climate-change denial, and to stop such efforts within schools."
Praising The War on Science, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" writes, "Otto makes a case that can't be refuted. Science is important to all of us, especially the US government. He backs it up with peer reviewed studies, carefully researched numbers, and his own extensive experience. He uses the process of science to prove that we need science in order to remain free. Here's hoping all voters everywhere take him seriously — soon."