Glenn Branch

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Glenn Branch is the Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education [http://www.ncseweb.org/ourstaff.asp Staff Profile] , National Center for Science Education] and a prominent critic of creationism and its offshoot, intelligent design. Branch has an Masters of Arts in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Branch has written on the topic of intelligent design and the Discovery Institute's "Teach the Controversy" campaign, [cite journal | quotes = no | last = Scott | first = Eugenie C. | authorlink = Eugenie Scott | coauthors = Glenn Branch | year = 2003 | title = Evolution: what's wrong with 'teaching the controversy' | journal = Trends in Ecology and Evolution | volume = 18 | issue = 10 | pages = 499–502 | issn = | pmid = | doi = 10.1016/j.tree.2003.12.005 | id = | url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ1-4C3KYND-3&_user=10&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b4d6c9fe21fb14047912da7957d09861 | accessdate = 2007-09-07
cite journal | quotes = no | last = Scott | first = Eugenie C. | authorlink = Eugenie Scott | coauthors = Glenn Branch | year = 2004 | title = Teaching the controversy: Response to Langen and to Meyer | journal = Trends in Ecology and Evolution | volume = 19 | issue = 3 | pages = 116–117 | issn = | pmid = 16701241 | doi = 10.1016/j.tree.2004.01.004 | url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ1-4C3KYND-5&_user=10&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6a129140cb569f7bb1f5bc5d466c03f5 | accessdate = 2007-09-07 ] co-authoring papers with Eugenie Scott and Jason Rosenhouse [cite journal | quotes = no | last = Rosenhouse | first = Jason | authorlink = Jason Rosenhouse | coauthors = Glenn Branch | year = 2006 | title = Media coverage of "intelligent design" | journal = BioScience | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 247–252 | url = http://www.math.jmu.edu/~rosenhjd/MediaCov.pdf | language = | format = | accessdate = 2007-09-07 | doi = 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056 [0247:MCOID] 2.0.CO;2 | doilabel = 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0247:MCOID]2.0.CO;2 ] . In 2006 he and Scott co-edited "".

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