admin on Nov 28th, 2008The Discovery Institute Targets Texas
See Barbara Forrest, “Why Texans Shouldn’t Let Creationists Mess with Texas Science Education,” Southern Methodist University, November 11, 2008 — Video — MP3
By Barbara Forrest
November 27, 2008
Texas science education is currently in the crosshairs of the Discovery Institute (DI), the conservative Seattle think tank that serves as the headquarters of the intelligent design (ID) creationist [...]
admin on Oct 18th, 2008Message to Louisiana School Districts: The LA Science Education Act’s Religion Disclaimer Won’t Protect You.
By Barbara Forrest
One of the clearest indications that the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) is intended to advance the religious agenda of the Discovery Institute (DI) and the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), the organizations that jointly promoted this legislation, is the law’s inclusion of a religion disclaimer that comes directly from DI’s doublespeak-titled “Model Academic [...]
admin on Jul 21st, 2008The “Dover Trial” — This should have been required viewing in Louisiana.
Anyone who missed Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, which aired on PBS’s NOVA in November 2007, can view the entire program on Google video (112 minutes). This Peabody Award-winning documentary of the first legal case involving intelligent design (ID) creationism, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005) is the story of the [...]
admin on Jul 13th, 2008Out of the Mouths of Creationists: “The LA Science Education Act Promotes Critical Thinking” (Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge)
SB 733, the “LA Science Education Act,” is now law in Louisiana. Prior to being passed in its current form, this bill was first introduced as SB 561, the “LA Academic Freedom Act.” It was one of six such bills, the introduction of which the Discovery Institute (DI), a creationist think tank in Seattle, coordinated [...]
admin on Jun 30th, 2008The bloggers are watching Louisiana . . .
Gov. Jindal’s signing of SB 733 has attracted quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere. Here are excerpts from several nationally known blogs.
Daily Kos, June 29, 2008: “They Can Never Take Away Our FREEDOM!!!”
The Louisiana legislature should be more wary than most of the Dover trap: It was there, way back in 1987, that [...]
admin on Jun 23rd, 2008For Immediate Release: (1) New York Times calls for Gov Jindal to veto SB 733 & (2) Escalating Discovery Institute involvement in promoting SB 733
Press Release: LA Coalition for Science, June 22, 2008
(1) New York Times editorial and major scientific societies call for Jindal’s veto of SB 733
(2) Escalating Discovery Institute involvement in promoting SB 733
Baton Rouge, LA, June 22, 2008 — The New York Times has noticed the Louisiana legislature’s passage of SB 733, the “LA Science Education [...]
admin on Jun 22nd, 2008Scientific 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 [...]
admin on Jun 12th, 2008Press Release: Reject SB 733
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New group stands up for sound science education in Louisiana
LA Coalition for Science decries House support for SB 733, calls for Senate to reject bill
Baton Rouge, LA, June 11, 2008 — In response to numerous attacks on science education in the Bayou State, concerned parents, teachers and scientists are getting organized. The new [...]
admin on May 22nd, 2008Analysis of SB 733: “LA Science Education Act”
SB 733, the “LA Science Education Act,” is a stealth creationism bill. Introduced by Louisiana Sen. Ben Nevers on behalf of the LA Family Forum (LFF—the LA affiliate of Focus on the Family), it is the direct descendant of SB 561, the “LA Academic Freedom Act.” SB 561’s twin in the LA House of Representatives [...]