Showing posts with label Academic Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Academic Freedom. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Meanwhile, in Florida...

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NBC2 in Florida reports that a bill has been promoted in the legislature that would allow more "academic freedom" in teaching cont...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Update: Mississippi Bill Dies in Committee

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NCSE is reporting that HB 50, the Mississippi “Academic Freedom” bill proposed by Mark Formby has died in committee . Mississippi's Ho...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Rise of Anti-Evolution Bills: UPDATE

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PhysOrg also has a post on this research that includes an animated GIF to show the progression.  From the post: The study also found tha...

Nick Matzke Tracks the Rise of Anti-Evolution Bills in the United States

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The Los Angeles Times is running a story about Nick Matzke's efforts to chronicle the rise of anti-evolution bills in the United States....
Friday, March 06, 2015

Ars Technica Pulls The Mask Off the "Teach the Controversy" Bills

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I have written this many times in this blog: the “Teach the Controversy” legislation being promoted in different statehouses across the coun...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

New Indiana Bill 562

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In the Lafayette (or “laughalot” as one of my friends who went to Purdue once called it) Journal and Courier, we learn that state senator J...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Discovery Institute Attacks Ball State's Decision to Allow Atheistic Seminar

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The Discovery Institute has written an open letter to Jo Ann Gora, the president of Ball State University, asking her to be consistent with ...
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Friday, August 09, 2013

The Carlisle Sentinel Responds to Stephen Bloom

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The Carlisle Sentinel has devoted an editorial to the Stephen Bloom push to have a bill passed allowing "academic freedom" for deb...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Live Science: Four New "Anti-Science" Bills

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Live Science has a post on the spate of “anti-science” bills that have been promoted recently.  Larry O'Hanlon writes: Anti-science b...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Academic Freedom" Bill in Colorado

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Of all places, I did not expect this to occur in Colorado.  The NCSE has a piece on a new “academic freedom” bill that has been proposed. Th...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Tennessean: TN evolution law may change nothing

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According to an article in the Tennessean, the new “monkey bill” may change nothing about the way science is taught. Here is the accompanyi...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Haslam Lets ‘Monkey Bill’ Stand

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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has allowed SB893 to stand, effectively making it law. As he is quoted in the Nature News story : “ I do not...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Eugenie Scott on “Critical Thinking Bills”

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Robert Luhn at NCSE sent me a link for this lecture by Eugenie Scott at the University of South Florida, in February of 2012 on the “academi...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Video on the Deliberation of SB893

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Here is the deliberation of the senate bill by Bo Watson, which passed 7 to 1, with one abstaining (click on SB0893). There was one amendme...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Tennessee “Academic Freedom” Bill Returns

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One of my favorite Murphyisms is “No one can kill a bad idea.” True to form, the NCSE reports on Tennessee Senate Bill 893, which is the co...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Oklahoma Joins the Fray

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Oklahoma can now lay claim to having joined the group of states to have an “academic freedom” bill pushed into the house of representatives....
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Young Earth Creationism in New Hampshire?

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Usually, depictions of New England are of a progressive society that has cast off the bonds of provinciality and discrimination in favor of ...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

More on the Tennessee Bill

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Tom Humphrey has written an article for the Knoxville News Sentinel on the house bill to promote “academic freedom.” He writes: An American...
Friday, February 18, 2011

A Move to Repeal the Louisiana “Academic Freedom” Bill

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Panda's Thumb points us to an article by Lauri Lebo on the movement afoot to repeal the “stealth creationism” bill that was passed in L...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Education Week: Evolution Education Working

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According to an article in Education Week, the fallout from the Dover trial in 2005 has been bad for creationism and intelligent design. S...