What's a progressive? -- The state of the "pro-science" union -- Organic food: the holy eucharist of environmentalism -- Food fight! -- Crappy conservation and clean energy chaos -- Sunshine days and flower power -- Bring on the vaccines and Viagra -- PETA: professional experimenters testing on animals -- Welcome to the anti-Renaissance -- Boys have wee-wees and girls have hoo-hoos -- Education and its discontents -- The death of science journalism -- False equivalence -- The war on excellence -- Twelve issues for 2012 and beyond -- Closing arguments: an appeal to scientific reasoning.