[etlib]

It's so bad, in fact, that the National Academy of Sciences has refused to let Kansas use any of it's copyrighted material to draw up their new standards.

The National Academy of Sciences is "cutting off their nose to spite their face."  If they are interested in providing the evidence for evolution of the students then they should allow the use of this information. By failing to provide the information they inhibit the education of the students in the manner they prefer.

[Right Wing Professor]

The National Academy of Sciences is "cutting off their nose to spite their face." If they are interested in providing the evidence for evolution of the students then they should allow the use of this information. By failing to provide the information they inhibit the education of the students in the manner they prefer.

Nah. There's no requirement you need to provide material to be bastardized by others.

[Rudder]

The National Academy of Sciences is "cutting off their nose to spite their face."

This is re: NAS withdrawing copyright.

I had the same thoughts as you, thinking what better to do than to hit the challenge head on. I had this same debate here a week ago.---Our conclusions:

Science is under assault.
Scientists do science for a living, not PR.
Although Science's PR is inadequate, it will still reflexively fire back at an assault---albeit poorly.
Science should hire a really good PR firm.

As we with jocularity say, "Hey, it's all showbiz!!!"