Comments on: LOUISIANA OPEN FOR BUSINESS — CREATIONISTS WELCOME

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Merry Kitzmas, everybody! A gift from the Louisiana Coalition for Science

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:25:03 +0000

[...] success at gaining control over BESE policies governing the implementation of the LSEA (see here and here), the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) then went after the biology textbooks. But this time, [...]

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Hell just froze over in Louisiana.

Louisiana Coalition for Science » Hell just froze over in Louisiana. — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:42:10 +0000

[...] — when the Louisiana Science Education was being rammed through the legislature — or BESE on January 13, 2009 or September 16, 2009 — when the LFF sent its creationist contingent in to take control of the [...]

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Textbook Attack in Louisiana

Louisiana Coalition for Science » Textbook Attack in Louisiana — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:02:21 +0000

[...] the Louisiana Department of Education) of its prohibition against teaching creationism, in effect gutting it. But BESE didn’t stop there. In September 2009, they handed the LFF another victory in the [...]

By: Politics of Evolution » Ge·knit·ics

Politics of Evolution » Ge·knit·ics — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:33:26 +0000

[...] Jindal signed the Louisiana Science Education Act into law last summer. Barbara Forrest posted a penetrating analysis of the bill on the Louisiana Coalition for Science blog. And last week, the Society for Integrative and [...]

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Livingston Parish School Board Wants to Implement Discovery Institute’s “Academic Freedom” Law

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:54:04 +0000

[...] the Discovery Institute, that gutted (1) the BESE policies governing implementation of the LSEA (January 2009) and (2) the filing of complaints about supplementary materials (September 2009). BESE undermined [...]

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Gene Mills Says Credit Goes to . . . Jesus!

Thu, 27 May 2010 02:39:14 +0000

[...] December 2008-January 2009, Mills was busily attempting — successfully, as it turned out — to gut the policy that had been proposed for Bulletin 741, the Louisiana Handbook for School [...]

By: Louisiana Coalition for Science » Three Courageous Italian Scientists — An Example for Louisiana

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:41:17 +0000

[...] This website is normally devoted to providing information about the teaching of evolution and the fight against creationism in Louisiana and related topics. However, important science-related issues sometimes arise that our readers should know about. The following is one of those issues, and there is a lesson in it for Louisiana: three Italian scientists — Elena Cattaneo of the University of Milan, Elisabetta Cerbai of the University of Florence, and Silvia Garagna of the University of Pavia — are fighting a legal battle in the Italian courts to win the right to apply for government funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, which is legal in Italy. These scientists have taken on this fight at their own expense, and they could use some help. Their bravery in defending science is a lesson for the people of Louisiana, a state in which standing up to defend science is a actually a liability in the eyes of public officials (see also here). [...]

By: Levees Not War » Blog Archive » “Something Called ‘Volcano Monitoring’”;Gov. Jindal, There’s Something Called Science

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:38:28 +0000

[...] congressman Ben Nevers by the Louisiana Family Forum, an affiliate of Focus on the Family. The Louisiana Coalition for Science notes that SB733’s phrase “academic freedom and inquiry” is “well-documented [...]

By: A rise in anti-religious sentiment on the forums? - Page 2 - Religious Education Forum

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:48:23 +0000

[...] I should live so long as to see them take their ball for a lo-o-ong walk on a short pier. btw, here is the latest example of "faith" in action here in the USA. I have g/c and g/g/c who will [...]

By: Let there be idiocy « Irreligious

Let there be idiocy « Irreligious — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:22:41 +0000

[...] in public office are continuing to wage a war against science. From battles in Texas to Louisiana, creationists are attempting to force their beliefs into schools and [...]