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Like a bulldog being dragged along by a car. Just too dumb to give up.
But it's not just science these days. Here in Texas they tried to rewrite history a few times including downplaying the role of hispanics in Texas. Go figure.
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
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> A bill that would allow Tennessee teachers to question evolution, climate
> change, and embryonic stem cell research under the guise of helping
> students learn "critical thinking skills" is one step closer to becoming
> law. On Monday the Tennessee Senate approved S. 893, which closely matches
> a bill passed last
> year<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6027/295.summary> (by
> subscription) by the Tennessee House of Representatives. House members are
> expected to approve the latest version and send the legislation to the
> state's Republican governor, who has not indicated whether he will sign it.
>
> Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland,
> California, which tracks such legislation across the country, has been
> blogging about the
> bills<http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2012/03/tennessee_sets_the_stage_for_a.php>.
> "No one has ever explained why science teachers are the only ones who ought
> to be promoting critical thinking and the other noble goals the legislature
> lists," he writes, "nor has anyone justified the practical effects of the
> bill, which would be far less laudable." His forecast: "[Now] it's up to
> Governor [William] Haslam to protect the state's students, parents, and
> teachers from their own legislature."
>
> The *Knoxville News
> Sentinel<http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/mar/19/anti-evolution-class-discussions-get-senates-ok/>
> * described how Senate opponents of the bill, all Democrats, noted before
> the vote that the state's science teachers are "doing just fine teaching
> science without the Legislature's involvement." The paper quotes one
> legislator as saying that "we are simply dredging up the problems of the
> past with this bill." Eight members of the U.S. National Academy of
> Sciences from Tennessee, including Vanderbilt University medicine Nobelist
> Stanley Cohen, have written a letter objecting to the measure, saying it
> could force teachers "to emphasize what are misdescribed as the scientific
> weaknesses of evolution."
> Martin
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