Project Steve is a propaganda campaign started in 2003 by the anti-creationist group the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). It attempts to promote the validity of evolution by means of a logically-fallacious argument ad populum. Project Steve is named after the late Stephen Jay Gould, and is a list of nearly 1000 scientists named Steve or variations thereof (including Stephanie) who agree with a statement supporting evolution. Approximately 1% of U.S. residents have first names that qualify. The New York Times reported in 2006 that 54 percent of the then 700+ Steves work in biology.