Posted on 10/26/2006 10:18:07 PM PDT by balch3
In an unusual foray into electoral politics, 75 science professors at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have signed a letter endorsing a candidate for the Ohio Board of Education.
The professors’ favored candidate is Tom Sawyer, a former congressman and onetime mayor of Akron. They hope Mr. Sawyer, a Democrat, will oust Deborah Owens Fink, a leading advocate of curriculum standards that encourage students to challenge the theory of evolution.
Elsewhere in Ohio, scientists have also been campaigning for candidates who support the teaching of evolution and have recruited at least one biologist from out of state to help.
Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist at Case Western Reserve who organized the circulation of the letter, said almost 90 percent of the science faculty on campus this semester had signed it. The signers are anthropologists, biologists, chemists, geologists, physicists and psychologists.
The letter says
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
In socialist political speak, "scientists" = Democrats. Hitler was right.
In this day and age, the word "scientists" SHOULD ALWAYS be in quotes!
Well, if the science university professors want high school graduates prepared to their standards, who would blame them? Thus their interest in the Board of Education.By the same token, divinity school professors could have a functionally identical, but opposite view.
exactly. These "scientists" have given up any pretence of impartiality. They wouldn't know the truth if if bit them on the toe.
Good for them! I'm glad to see members of the scientific community standing up for science education; it's sorely lacking in American schools...
Right. The line between science and politics has been removed. Everyone has an agenda and a need for government grants.
It sounds like a good endorsement.
Deborah Owens Fink, a leading advocate of curriculum standards that encourage students to challenge the theory of evolution...
standing in the way of scientific inquiry?
My AP Chem book was riddled with errors, and the teacher didn't have a clue--us in the front row ended up explaining everything to everyone else. AP bio at least had a good book but it was still quite behind the curve of research and I know of several other bio books that continue to perpetrate known falsehoods and even myths. Even the AP calc book had "proofs" which anyone with a sense of mathematical rigor could identify as fallacious. Non-AP classes were much worse. We made it through about three chapters in economics of an already subpar book and the only times the grossly incompetent teacher took to explaining anything she was wrong. Or maybe she just subscribed to the 'depressions and market collapse are good' category of thought with respect to federal interest rates.
So where is the outrage about this? Where is the public riposte against the numerous untruths I was taught as dogma in my public high school? There is none.
Face it, these guys don't care whether what is taught is right or not, they just care if there is a sticker on the book that says 'evolution is a theory.'
Right or wrong, they're just playing politics, exactly like everyone else who thinks that they should get a say in what school district teaches what.
Appearantly Tom Sawyer's "mind is for rent".
Working link here
Same with the word "expert" or the words "best science".l
Maybe they are tired of fundamentalists trying to force religion into science classes and are beginning to use the same political methods to fight back.
Maybe you fail to recognize 2 and 2 -- science which attacks the rights of religion (per majority) is not a conservative cause.
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