Susan Jacoby

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Born

1945

Works

18

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Susan Jacoby (born 1946) is an American author, most recently of the New York Times best seller, The Age of American Unreason about American anti-intellectualism. She is an atheist and secularist. Jacoby graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. She lives in New York City and is director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry. Jacoby, who began her career as a reporter for The Washington Post, has been a contributor to a wide variety of national publications <a href="https://w

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5 total works indexed

1. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,300x

2. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,930x

3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,226x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

5. phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

   · 2013 · cited 20,049x

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Quotes

• “What the many types of freethinkers shared, regardless of their views on the existence or nonexistence of a divinity, was a rationalist approach to fundamental questions of earthly existence—a conviction that the affairs of human beings should be governed not by faith in the supernatural but by a reliance on reason and evidence produced from the natural world.”
• “Notions of the depravity of human reason, Allen argued, were cherished by priests because, if ordinary human beings were assumed to be perfectly capable of reasoning for themselves, the clergy would be out of work.”
• “The second explicit secularist constitutional provision is of course the First Amendment to the bill of rights.”
• “Although there were numerous attempts by state ratifying conventions to amend the Constitution, and subvert the intent of the preamble, by declaring that governmental power was derived from God or Jesus Christ, the proposed religious amendments were defeated. In the end, the economic necessity for a federal union trumped all other concerns.”
• “Throughout their presidencies, Jefferson and his successor, Madison, never ceased to uphold the separation of church and state they had conceived as a model for the new nation.”
• “The Civil War, like most wars, was a bad time for religious skeptics.”

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