May 22, 2013, CBSNews.com article about an experimental asthma drug that has had success treating previously untreatable patients.

June 9, 2013, Las Vegas Review-Journal article about Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang who has brought several experimental drugs to Las Vegas.

May 31, 2013, WebMD article about new experimental drugs that are proving successful against prostate cancer.

June 6, 2013, The New York Times article about an experimental autism drug that had success in clinical trials but is now being discontinued.

Elizabeth S. Anderson is a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She contributed the essay “If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?” to Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2007).

Paul Fidalgo is communications manager at the Secular Coalition for America, a policy advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. He has a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University and wrote his thesis on atheists’ precarious place in U.S. politics.

Robert Boston is senior policy analyst for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and assistant editor of its monthly magazine, Church & State.

Jason Torpy is president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers. A West Point graduate, he served in Germany, Kuwait and Iraq before leaving the service in 2005 to pursue a master’s degree. He lives in New York City.

David Niose is legal director of the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center. He previously served as the organization’s president. Niose has written about the growing significance of secular voters.