The Naked Mind: If You Can't Eat It, Drink It, or Screw It, I Ain't Interested

These fascinatingly unique insights into society derive from the personal experiences of a professional educator, scientist and committed social-political activist. The author engages in a personal conversation with the reader as he details his experiences involving the devastating influence of various ideologies on modern concepts of education, freedom, religion, science and medicine in the United States. His ?no holds barred? accounts coupled with his clarity and directness of expression are bound to engage or enrage readers, depending on their world outlook. Open the book to read any stand-alone chapter. The author develops the concept of the Goebbels Award and discusses his nominees for this infamous honor.The Naked Mind covers diverse topics from beliefs to facts to treating multiple sclerosis, from anti-Semitism to the ?Greatest Generation? to the Boston Pops to Bobby Knight to the NBA to the Goebbels Award, from the trial of Jesus to Edith Stein and finding the reasons for her conversion, from religion to secular humanism to creationism to evolution to a modern K-12 curriculum, from individuality to freedom, from second amendment rights to terrorism, from papal pronouncements to Galileo to replacement theology to human sexuality, and more.Contents Include:-The Difficulty of Teaching Biology in the Deep South or The Deadly Influence of Belief on Education-The Stranger's Creed-Consequences: Squashing the Bug-A Polemist's Delight-God Failed Biology 101 -Creation ? Evolution: A Debate-A Potpourri: The Pope, Christianity,Islam, Leadership, Anti-Semitism-How I Became an Atheist, Freethinker, Skeptic, Humanist -Why I am a Humanist Skeptic-And Still a Jew -The Goebbels Award-Individuality and Freedom-The Deadly Influence of Ideology in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis-No Safe HavenGottlieb, Sheldon is the author of 'The Naked Mind: If You Can't Eat It, Drink It, or Screw It, I Ain't Interested' with ISBN 9781930536197 and ISBN 1930536194.