Alan Leshner Quotations

It's what Ecstasy does to serotonin levels that concerns us most right now,

We know way too little about all those variables.

The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom,

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.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

We're collectively mounting this effort in order to try and fend off what could become another public health crisis in this country.

Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious concept. There is no scientific basis to intelligent design.

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.