Wesley R. Elsberry
Posts: 4966 Joined: May 2002
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Stephens and Stephanies support teaching of science
Quote | Dr. Stephen B. Malcolm, an associate professor of biological sciences at Western Michigan University, is one of more than 200 scientists named Steve to sign a national resolution supporting the theory of evolution as a "vital, well-supported, unifying principal of the biological sciences."
Malcolm joined 224 other Steves and Stephanies to sign the statement issued Feb. 16 in Denver at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Signatories backed evolution instruction in public schools. The tongue-in-cheek initiative was designed both as a tribute to the late Harvard evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould and a spoof of anti-evolution manifestos that incorporate lists of names of scientists as evidence that evolution is falling into disfavor in the scientific community.
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Scientists spread the word on evils of pseudoscience
Quote | Scientists must be the evangelists against the well-financed effort to undermine science education, especially evolution, a physics professor said Monday.
Scientists have become society's bad guys, as portrayed in the television series The X-Files where the truth is out there and don't trust anyone, said Lawrence Krauss, a professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
Krauss, speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said religious dogma and pseudoscientific nonsense have marginalized science at the highest levels of government and the schools.
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Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on Feb. 18 2003,08:37
-------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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