Published by admin on 22 Jun 2008 at 06:02 am
Scientific Societies Call for Gov. Jindal to Veto SB 733
Nine of the nation’s premier scientific societies have called upon Gov. Jindal to veto SB 733.
American Institute of Biological Sciences (pdf), co-signed by seven major scientific societies, June 13, 2008:
- American Ornithologists Union
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Botanical Society of America
- Natural Science Collections Alliance
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Society of Systematic Biologists
- Society for the Study of Evolution
American Association for the Advancement of Science (pdf), “the world’s largest general scientific society,” June 20, 2008
- See other letters concerning SB 733.
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