Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

New Florida Bill Would Advocate Teaching of Controversial Subjects

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Emily Mahoney of the Tampa Bay Times writes that a new bill by senator Dennis Baxley (R, of course) has been promoted to allow teachers to ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Ken Ham Takes Potshot at Bill Nye on Climate Change

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Ken Ham...Bill Nye...a plague on both of your houses.  While Bill Nye is out trying to save the world, and Ken Ham is out trying to save the...
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Monday, May 08, 2017

Texas...Again!

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This is a follow-up post to another one on March 21.  Hot on the heels of the Texas State Board of Education striking language in the state ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Motherboard: Florida Bills Would Let Citizens Remove Textbooks That Mention Climate Change and Evolution

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First, lets get past the hyperbolic headline.  A bill just passed in Florida is addressing parental concerns about curricular material.  It ...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Phil Plait's Biased View of Anti-Science Purveyors

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Phil Plait has a Slate article that squarely takes aim at Donald Trump (A "yuge" target!) and the anti-science views of the Republ...
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Ted Cruz on NPR

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On the way in to work this morning, I heard part of an interview with Ted Cruz , who was asked pointedly if he accepted the current position...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Alabama Adopts Pro-Evolution Curriculum Stance

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The state of Alabama has adopted an educational stance that includes an active attempt to teach evolution, rather than a passive one.  The A...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Karl Giberson: 2014 Revenge of the Creationists

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Karl Giberson has written a post for the Daily Beast called “ Revenge of the Creationists ,” in which he outlines all of the recent developm...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

New Proposed Virginia Bill is Redundant

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Climate Progress, a branch of Think Progress has a story on a new "strengths and weaknesses" bill that is being proposed for the ...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Science Teachers Express Frustration

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Science teachers are beginning to express frustration about having to get around legislation that requires them to add ID-tinged education t...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Slightly Off-Topic: The State of Science Education

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I had a good belly laugh this morning reading this story on Watts Up With That? It seems that someone had a good bit of fun at the Cancun ...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

The 2010 Elections and Science

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Alasdair Wilkins over at io9 has been wondering the same thing that I have: how will the Republican takeover of congress and the local state...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Climate Change and Human Evolution

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ScienceDaily is reporting on an initiative by the National Research Council to understand how past climatic disturbances affected human evo...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Anti-Evolution/Global Warming: Jay Richards Doesn't Help the Cause

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Jay Richards of the Enterprise Institute has written a column implying that the connection between those espousing anti-evolutionary views ...